Chapter 10: Chipped
Summary:
Lobotomy was the first breakthrough in helping severly ill mental patients but was questioned ethically due to the way patients were selected and the side effects. After drugs were created that would help mentally ill people lobotomies lost the hype. The procedure has been greatly refined but is now extremely hard to get due to ethical matters. The end of the chapter discusses a person who is permitted to get a lobotomy because he has exhausted all other options and comes out of the surgery cured.
Discussion:
I think its kind of shocking how many aspects of what doctors are doing to our brains is unkown. People take drugs rather than surgery because it feels like they have control and know exactly what is happening, when in fact the doctors don`t even fully understand. One quote that stuck out to me in this chapter was "Our cure is only as good as our courage".
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