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Lobotomies

Lobotomies. How a Lobotomy Works. Effects of Lobotomies. Before After. Effects. Reduced temper Calm and complacent personality Vegetative state death. What’s wrong with Walter Freeman. Befriended prominent journalists

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Lobotomies

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  1. Lobotomies

  2. How a Lobotomy Works

  3. Effects of Lobotomies Before After Effects • Reduced temper • Calm and complacent personality • Vegetative state • death

  4. What’s wrong with Walter Freeman • Befriended prominent journalists • Began performing lobotomies before proper studies conducted • Serious death rate • Preformed lobotomies on children

  5. The Case of Howard Dully • given a lobotomy at age 12 • At insistence of his step-mother • Symptoms : • Aversion to bed time • Aversion to baths Dully as a child Dully today

  6. Ethics! Ethics! Ethics! Problem • Ethics • a. A set of principles of right conduct. • b. A theory or a system of moral values • Befriended prominent journalists • Began performing lobotomies before proper studies conducted • Serious death rate • Preformed lobotomies on children

  7. Solution • Ethical issues not unique to lobotomies • Organization or administration to monitor procedures • Set of written rules to be followed • Must past several examination by this organization • Monotor death rate from procedure

  8. Organization Medical professional Preset ethical rules New procedure Send professionals to monitor new procedures Train professionals Begin marketing new procedure Must be approved by organization

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