Walter Freeman and the Visual Culture of Lobotomy
| dc.contributor.author | Posner, Miriam | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2020-05-20T19:42:27Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2020-05-20T19:42:27Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2016-01-25 | |
| dc.description | Digital Humanities Seminar, University of Kansas, Institute for Digital Research in the Humanities & Hall Center for the Humanities, January 25th, 2016: http://idrh.ku.edu Miriam Posner is at the University of California Los Angeles. | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | Head-and-Shoulder Hunting in the Americas: Walter Freeman and the Visual Culture of Lobotomy. Between 1936 and 1967, Walter Freeman, a prominent neurologist, lobotomized as many as 3,500 Americans. Freeman was also an obsessive photographer, taking patients’ photographs before their operations and tracking them down years — even decades — later. In this presentation, Miriam Posner details her efforts to understand why Freeman was so devoted to this practice, using computer-assisted image-mining and -analysis techniques to show how these images fit into the larger visual culture of 20th-century psychiatry. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1808/30372 | |
| dc.relation.isversionof | https://youtu.be/I7C2KOgfbQU | en_US |
| dc.rights.accessrights | openAccess | en_US |
| dc.subject | Digital Humanities | en_US |
| dc.subject | Lobotomy | en_US |
| dc.subject | Walter Freeman | en_US |
| dc.subject | Medical Humanities | en_US |
| dc.subject | Photography | en_US |
| dc.subject | Data | en_US |
| dc.title | Walter Freeman and the Visual Culture of Lobotomy | en_US |
| dc.type | Video | en_US |
| dspace.entity.type | Publication |
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