Go to My Lobotomy on NPR and click on "Listen."
This is approximately 22 minutes long and is a fascinating (also somewhat disconcerting and disturbing) story of a man who was lobotomized as a child. When done, post your thoughts on the procedure. However be sure to carefully listen to the parts of the story when Howard Dully talks to people who felt the procedure had benefits. Comment on the efficacy and ethics of the procedure.
Post response by Friday, December 16 for the extra credit!
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Ok, so this was slightly disturbing. This was a quick 10 minute procedure that changed your life forever. The idea of literally inserting ice picks in to the frontal lobes of the brain literally blows my mind. I understand that it was to control behavior that was uncontrollable, yet it renders individuals as vegetables the rest of their lives. I don’t honestly know what I would do if I was in a situation where I had to control people who were uncontrollable, yet I just believe that it is so wrong to lobotomize people. Essentially, you are taking their lives away, and the whole idea of the procedure being popular is very shocking. Maybe if there was a different way to lobotomize people without using ice picks and turning them into vegetables it would be more acceptable. Doctors need to find a non drug related procedure that can alter/ control parts of the brain that are not functioning properly. To my understanding, lobotomizing people makes them useless basically, it is like doctors getting away with murder.
ReplyDeleteAlthough I would love to be able to do this blog for extra credit, I personally do not think I could handle it and would probably end up passing out. I'll pass
ReplyDeletethat was truely one of the most revolting and saddening clips i've listened to in all my years. to me the brain is more than an organ that recieves and outputs electrical signals, it does more than direct motion or emotion, it is you. going at any other organ with a chainsaw is less damaging to a person than pricking the brain with a small needle, never mind a sharpened ice pick.
ReplyDeletethe procedure could not have been effective if the doctor spent the rest of his years catching up with patients to try and prove a positive impact, if there were any such impact it would have been evident without him having to search for it.
I am astonished and ashamed that any governing body would ever permit this as a "legitimate" medical procedure. it is so inherently obvious that the doctor has no idea what he is doing. he has taken it upon himself to jam a metal rod into your frontal lobe when he can't even see which part of the brain he's destroying, never mind know what the function of that region is.
howard talks about how he feels like although the operation didn't "touch his soul", he still felt like he lost something in those ten minutes. He's right, in those ten minutes he lost himself, all that he could have become, the personality he would have had, his emotions, his memories, and his intellect. he was described as a perfectly normal child prior to the operation, but afterwards he sat there smiling with two holes in the top of his eyes leading to his brain. that seems to me like it's a more maladaptive behavior than the childhood conflicts he had with his step-mother that led her to have him killed.
yes killed, because even though his heart never stopped and he was smiling after the operation, it was no longer Howard sitting there, it was only part of him, and neither he nor the rest of the other 2000+ patients will ever be able to find the part of themselves they lost.
i'm two days past the due date for extra credit, but discussing this topic is worth more than any grade.
-Luke Creamer
in this story the procedure was used from crazy people to normal people who suffered head aches. Lobotomy was used on hundreds of people and become popular because of all the attention it got. It might have made people more cooperative but it killed the person. the person who got a lobotomy performed to them didn't physically die, but within they're mind they were dead, a vegetable as its called today. Lobotomy might have cured people by making the insane more calm and controllable but it only did this by mentally killing the person.
ReplyDeleteI had to literally stop the recording at the part where they were describing the noise the ice-picks made as they were entering up the frontal lobs and into their brains, gave me the chills. This procedure is absolutely cruel. It isn't curing ANYTHING. Personally, I would rather be dead then be in a vegetated state for the rest of my life. This procedure doesn't fix the patients who are ill, it pretty much just kills them. Each patient who goes into the procedure, whether they be like Howard Dully who ends up ok after, or the others who are like vegetables, the procedure takes something away from these people. It changes them. The most mind blowing part of it all is the lack of professionalism in the doctors. Howard's step mother made all of these symptoms up to the doctors who didn't see any sign of mental illness. But they took her word for it and did the procedure. THEY DIDN'T SEE ANYTHING WRONG WITH HIM! And they still tried to kill parts of his brain. Lobotomy's are not effective procedures to cure the mentally ill. The only thing it is effective for, is killing someone.
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