This disc is a DVD-R and may fail to play on some DVD equipment. Narrator: Jim Cissell. Originally broadcast in 2001 as a segment of: Kill or cure. Series title on container and disc: Kill or cure : a history of medical treatment.
Summary:
This segment of the five-part series presents a history of medical treatment. This program follows the long, often grim road towards understanding and treating mental illness. Through testimonials, original manuscripts, photos, and extensive footage from medical archives, leading doctors and medical historians trace the history of asylums, the development of psychoanalysis, electroconvulsive therapy, and the rise of psychopharmacology. Details the once widespread use of phrenology, lobotomy, and lobotomy's ancient precursor, trepanning.
Series:
Kill or cure, a history of medical treatment
Locations:
HWAX074 -- Hawkeye Community College Library (Waterloo)
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.