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The images-before-and-after close-ups of patient faces-were presented in medical journals and textbooks as proof that partial brain excision succeeded in healing mentally ill people. Posner was compelled to examine the surgery’s history, and Freeman’s career, by a photo-and then more photos and old film clips-that she happened to see. “We now think of lobotomy as an atrocity and rightfully so, but it’s also important to understand how a lot of very smart, educated people could have believed otherwise during the procedure’s prime.” In the mid-20th century, lobotomies were commonly practiced “on tens of thousands of mentally ill people,” Dr. One of the central questions of digital humanities is, what can statistics capture and what kind of meaning eludes these methods?” “We find ourselves now in a time when data and statistics claim an enormous amount of cultural authority. ![]() “This whole lecture is the story of different modes of proof coming in and out of fashion,” she said.
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