El Hai Jack Books
Books di El Hai Jack
The Lobotomist
El-Hai Jack
edizioni John Wiley & Sons Inc , 2007
The Lobotomist explores one of the darkest chapters of American medicine: the desperate attempt to treat the hundreds of thousands of psychiatric patients in need of help during the middle decades of the twentieth century. Into this crisis stepped Walter Freeman, M.D., who saw a solution in lobotomy, a brain operation...
The Nazi and the Psychiatrist
El-Hai Jack
edizioni Public Affairs collana Public Affairs (Paperback) , 2014
In 1945, after his capture at the end of the Second World War, Hermann Göring arrived at an American-run detention center in war-torn Luxembourg, accompanied by sixteen suitcases and a red hatbox. The suitcases contained all manner of paraphernalia: medals, gems, two cigar cutters, silk underwear, a hot water bottle,...
The Lobotomist
El-Hai Jack
edizioni John Wiley & Sons Inc , 2005
The Lobotomist explores one of the darkest chapters of American medicine: the desperate attempt to treat the hundreds of thousands of psychiatric patients in need of help during the middle decades of the twentieth century. Into this crisis stepped Walter Freeman, M.D., who saw a solution in lobotomy, a brain operation...
Non-Stop
El-Hai Jack
edizioni Univ of Minnesota Pr collana Univ of Minnesota Pr (Hardcover) , 2013
From its earliest flights in 1926, carrying mail and occasionally a solo passenger to Chicago, to its acquisition by Delta in 2010, Northwest Airlines soared to the heights of technological achievement and business innovation—and sunk to the depths of employee discord, passenger dissatisfaction, and financial bankruptcy....
