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dc.contributor.authorPosner, Miriam
dc.date.accessioned2020-05-20T19:42:27Z
dc.date.available2020-05-20T19:42:27Z
dc.date.issued2016-01-25
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1808/30372
dc.descriptionDigital 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.
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dc.description.abstractHead-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.
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dc.subjectDigital Humanitiesen_US
dc.subjectLobotomyen_US
dc.subjectWalter Freemanen_US
dc.subjectMedical Humanitiesen_US
dc.subjectPhotographyen_US
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dc.titleWalter Freeman and the Visual Culture of Lobotomyen_US
dc.typeVideoen_US
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