The Icepick Surgeon w/Sam Kean: Yale’s Walter Freeman - a podcast by Sarah Alcorn/Laura Rodrigues McDonald

from 2021-07-08T00:00

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Yale's Walter Freeman was a physician who specialized in lobotomies, and after he developed the transorbital lobotomy, he traveled across the country visiting mental institutions, while also performing lobotomies and spreading his views and methods. Sam Kean joins Sarah and Laura to discuss the case.