Ethical considerations of psychosurgery: the unhappy legacy of the pre-frontal lobotomy
There is no subject at the interface of law, psychiatry and medical ethics which is more controversial than psychosurgery. The divergent views of the treatment begin with its definition. The World Health Organisation1 and others2 define psychosurgery as the selective surgical removal or destruction...
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BMJ Publ.
1980
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Journal of medical ethics
Year: 1980, Volume: 6, Issue: 3, Pages: 149-154 |
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