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Tables of Contents for Last Resort
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
List of Figures and Tables
viii
Acknowledgments
xi
Jack D. Pressman: An Appreciation
xiii
Gerald N. Grob
Introduction: A Stab in the Dark
1
17
Psychiatry's Renaissance: The Problem of Mental Disorder, 1921--1935
18
29
Sufficient Promise: John F. Fulton and the Origins of Lobotomy
47
55
Certain Benefit: Initial Impressions of the Operation
102
45
Active Treatment: Somatic Therapy and State Hospital Reform
147
47
Human Salvage: Why Psychosurgery Worked in 1949 (and Not Now)
194
42
Localizing Decisions: Psychosurgery and the Art of Medicine
236
82
The Politics of Precision: The Quest for a Better Lobotomy
318
44
Medicine Controlled: Psychiatry's Evolution as a Science and a Profession
362
39
Epilogue: The New Synthesis
401
52
Appendix
Statistical Portrait of Psychosurgery at McLean Hospital,1938--1954
443
5
Codes of Patients and Physicians Cited in Chapters 3 and 6
448
5
Notes
453
84
Sources
Collections Cited
533
2
Annual Reports Examined
535
2
Index
537