health.howstuffworks.com — It's safe to say that no one particularly wants an ice pick through the eye socket. And yet, for years, people who were mentally ill or merely "difficult" had parts of their brains removed this way. The natural question: why?
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sreyanotfilcNov 13, 2008
"As you'll read in this article, it wasn't always much of a cure. Let's start by looking at exactly what goes into performing a lobotomy. You need the Flash Player version 8.0.0.0 or higher and a JavaScript enabled browser ..." That threw me off for a second, I admit.
Closed AccountNov 13, 2008
read the f**king manual? What manual?
55mphNov 13, 2008
my first thought.
xerox2k2Nov 13, 2008
yea! now you can watch battling seizure robots (<a class="user" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Battling_seizure_Robots.jpg)">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Battling_seizur ...</a>
bigfootindyNov 13, 2008
It's not so bad... They go in through your nose and they let you keep the piece of brain they cut out. Look! Ooh! Hello! Hello there! Who's that big man there? Who's that?
crimsonflashNov 13, 2008
Dr. Freeman! What have you done?!?!NOOOO!!!!!
liminaldustNov 13, 2008
You never insert "misspellings" to insinuate that what you posted wasn't copy/pasted? :P
Closed AccountNov 13, 2008
Well I agree in part.I used to have blackouts as a kid, then they gave me a drug and it hasn't happened since, I don't even remember any of it it was so long ago.Now imagine if they had chosen to remove a bit of my brain through my eyeballs, dropped me in a scalding hot/ice cold bath for hours on end or electrocuted me?The article even said they still do this stuff and are advocating ressurecting it in places.Wankers - I hope sense prevails and their peers prevail in turn.
fustigationsNov 14, 2008
I'll have to agree with Tom on this one very rare instance.That really hurt me to admit.
bluehexagonsunNov 14, 2008
It should be added that neurologist António Egas Moniz, inventor of the lobotomy, was awarded the NOBEL PRIZE in 1949 for devising this heinous procedure. One moral to be drawn here: We should be skeptical, at the least, of the claimed objectivity and faultlessness of science; history offers many poignant reminders of the inherent and prodigious dangers of scientism (that is, a particularly uncritical acceptance of the "unjaundiced" postulates of science); in fact, it is oftentimes the case that science serves in the capacity of "ideology" to the extent that it can shape and even distort, for that matter, the better judgment of man. It's important too, I would add -- in terms of the more specific correlation -- that despite appearances to the contrary, modern psychiatry is potentially, though in a decidedly more oblique way, capable of actualizing a legacy equal to the destructive potential of lobotomies and related procedures that today strike us as beyond the pale.
dave0112Nov 14, 2008
LOL!!