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Lobotomy Research Paper

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The lobotomy was an inhumane, evil, and cruel procedure done on thousands of people in the 20th century. Walter Freeman performed roughly 5,000 of these, while the people he taught the procedure to may have performed 40,000 more, meaning that he was more or less responsible for 45,000 lobotomies within the US. With this much blood on his hands, we must ask ourselves: “Should he receive one as well”? The lobotomy is a barbaric procedure, and more often than not, yielded poor results, with a fatality rate of 15% (page 66). Those who did were often left with severe brain injuries, leaving them in a vegetative state and unable to perform simple tasks such as eating or going to the bathroom. It’s a cruel “treatment”, and in my opinion, should never

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