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American Experience
Season 20 · Episode 2
The Lobotomist
9.055mJanuary 21, 2008
In the 1940s Dr. Walter Freeman gained fame for perfecting the lobotomy, then hailed as a miracle cure for the severely mentally ill. But within a few years, lobotomy was labeled one of the most barbaric mistakes of modern medicine.
Episodes
- Episode 1Oswald's Ghost
- Episode 2The Lobotomist
- Episode 3Eyes on the Prize (7 & 8): The Time Has Come/Two Societies
- Episode 4Grand Central
- Episode 5Eyes on the Prize (9 & 10): Power!/The Promised Land
- Episode 6Eyes on the Prize (11 & 12): Ain't Gonna' Shuffle No More/A Nation of Law?
- Episode 7Eyes on the Prize (13 & 14): The Keys to the Kingdom/Back to the Movement
- Episode 8Kit Carson