Lobotomy Nation

Chapter 1. White Incisions and Black Butterflies: Introduction.- Part I: Towards Lobotomy.- Chapter 2. State Mental Health Services: Danish Hospitals and the Directorate, 1922-52.- Chapter 3. Malaria and the Interwar Years: Malaria Fever Therapy and other Innovations in Psychiatry, 1922-37.- Chapter 4. Shock and Coma: Insulin and Cardiazol Shock Therapy, 1937-42.- Chapter 5. Psychiatric Cooperation: Shock Treatment, Diagnoses and Psychiatric Textbooks, 1939-42.- Part II: The Time of Lobotomy.- Chapter 6. Something Different: Lobotomy, Electroshock Therapy and Plans for Psychiatry, 1939-47.- Chapter 7. The First of Many: Lobotomy and the State Mental Hospital in Vordinborg, 1940-47.- Chapter 8. The Apostles of the Knife: Lobotomy, the Directorate and the General Public, 1946-56.- Chapter 9. Last Resort?: Selecting Patients for Lobotomies in Vordinborg, 1947-56.- Chapter 10. Women and the Problem of Psychopathy: Gender and Control in Vordinborg, 1947-56.- Part III: The Demise of Psychosurgery.- Chapter 11. A Question of Consent: Coercion and Consent to Lobotomy, 1946-58.- Chapter 12. Lobotomia Sequelae: The Side-effects of Lobotomy, 1955-83.- Chapter 13. The Final Cut: Summary and Conclusion.