“disorder, chronic pain, and bipolar and other mood disorders. The procedure was also used to treat perceived defective personality traits that included homosexuality, nymphomania, criminal behavior, and marijuana and drug addiction. Freeman would later describe potential patients as society’s “misfits.”… — Kate Clifford Larson Copy Share Image
“women represented eighty-two percent of the total number of lobotomy patients from 1938 to 1954. In hospitals across the country, women constituted between sixty and eighty percent of all lobotomy recipients, in spite of the fact that men comprised the… — Kate Clifford Larson Copy Share Image
“In subject files labeled as correspondence related to Rosemary Kennedy, withdrawal sheets indicate the removal of hundreds of documents dating between 1923 and the… — Kate Clifford Larson Copy Share Image
“If Dr. Good missed the birth of the baby, he could not charge his extremely high fee of $125 for prenatal care and delivery.… — Kate Clifford Larson Copy Share Image
“At that time the Roman Catholic Church routinely refused the sacraments of Holy Communion and Confirmation to intellectually disabled children, especially those with Down… — Kate Clifford Larson Copy Share Image
“In the hours, days, and weeks following lobotomy, patients like Rosemary experienced a wide array of postoperative reactions and symptoms. They vomited uncontrollably. Incontinence… — Kate Clifford Larson Copy Share Image
“Women were most frequently institutionalized by the order of husbands and fathers, whose will and opinion superseded the women’s. A doctor’s legal and medical… — Kate Clifford Larson Copy Share Image
“Tens of thousands of patients would be forced to undergo lobotomies in the United States over the next two decades, and not until antipsychotic… — Kate Clifford Larson Copy Share Image
“disorder, chronic pain, and bipolar and other mood disorders. The procedure was also used to treat perceived defective personality traits that included homosexuality, nymphomania,… — Kate Clifford Larson Copy Share Image
“When holding Rose’s legs together failed to keep the baby from coming, the nurse resorted to another, more dangerous practice: holding the baby’s head… — Kate Clifford Larson Copy Share Image
“women represented eighty-two percent of the total number of lobotomy patients from 1938 to 1954. In hospitals across the country, women constituted between sixty… — Kate Clifford Larson Copy Share Image
