Controversy Over Lobotomy Pioneer’s Nobel Prize

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Critics want the Nobel prize taken from the man who pioneered lobotomies. The controversial procedure developed by Egas Moniz was once widely used to treat mental illness, epilepsy and even lingering headaches. But frontal lobotomies also failed. Rosemary Kennedy spent the rest her life in a Wisconsin institution after having one. Shamane Mills reports…

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