Psychiatry’s Desperate Remedies with Andrew Scull
Factually! with Adam Conover
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The Pseudoscience of the Physical Abotomy
Walter freeman operated on children as young as four. William scoville at yale was still performing lavadomes in 19 seventyd then he was killed in a car rash. Henry hawton was ripping teeth and tonsils and stomachs and cullins. And unless we do this, they become placid and sort of like a pendn a. It is really extraordinary, because all the stuff was appearing in the medical literature. Freeman even made movies of him in action. One of them was broadcast on television. Ah, but this stuff wasn't hidden away. You know, it was widely publicized.
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