Tentativas Operatórias no Tratamento de Certas Psicoses
by
Bruno CLARO
from Portugal
About the Book
In 1949, Egas Moniz became the first Portuguese national to win a Nobel Prize. He was awarded the prize in Medicine for his invention, the prefrontal leucotomy, popularly known as lobotomy. Throughout history Moniz and this invention have been regarded as both controversial and heroic.