ATTENTION: The software behind KU ScholarWorks is being upgraded to a new version. Starting July 15th, users will not be able to log in to the system, add items, nor make any changes until the new version is in place at the end of July. Searching for articles and opening files will continue to work while the system is being updated.
If you have any questions, please contact Marianne Reed at mreed@ku.edu .
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.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1808/30372 | |
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.eduMiriam 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.relation.isversionof | https://youtu.be/I7C2KOgfbQU | 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 |
dc.rights.accessrights | openAccess | en_US |
Files in this item
This item appears in the following Collection(s)
-
IDRH Events [114]