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Watch American Experience Season 20 Episode 2 Online

  • 7.5/10
  • COUNTRIES: United States of America
  • Subtitles: English

In the 1940s Dr. Walter Freeman gained fame for perfecting the lobotomy, then hailed as a miracle cure for the severely mentally ill. But within a few years, lobotomy was labeled one of the most barbaric mistakes of modern medicine.