Date 15 February 2017
Pages 318
Format cm 14 x 22
Price € 20.90
EAN 9782709647458
Publisher Website www.editions-jclattes.fr

Soul Surgery

Curing or Controlling our Brains, from Lobotomies to Deep Brain Stimulation
Publisher JC Lattès
GENRE Medicine
The history and future of brain surgery in all their grandeur, and the colossal ethical questions it entails.

Addiction, depression, bulimia, anorexia, obsessive compulsive behaviors… Numerous psychiatric disorders will soon be cured through psychosurgery. Many disabled people have already reclaimed their lives, and this is only the beginning.
However, psychosurgery, has always been a controversial medical field and raises many ethical questions regarding bionics and the normalization of human behavior. This is the first complete reference manual to accessibly discuss the many challenges that face psychosurgery in the future.