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Definition of Lobotomies
1. lobotomy [n] - See also: lobotomy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lobotomies
Literary usage of Lobotomies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dangerous Minds: Political Psychiatry in China Today and Its Origins in the by Robin Munro, Geneva Initiative on Psychiatry (2002)
"Tens of thousands of lobotomies were performed in the United States from 1936
until around 1952. The most egregious practitioner was the American ..."
2. Accounting for Pow/Mias from the Korean War and the Vietnam War: Hearing edited by Robert K. Dornan (1998)
"... which it equated to torture and the unwarranted use of "chemical lobotomies."
Rather than face censure and expulsion, and rather than change its ways, ..."
3. The Civilization of Illiteracy by Mihai Nadin (1997)
"Work is focused on individuals who are about to undergo partial lobotomies to
treat intractable epilepsy. The goal is to provide a functional map of the ..."
4. Eastern Standard Tribe by Cory Doctorow (2005)
"Like now as I sit here with a pencil up my nose, thinking about homebrew lobotomies
and wouldn't it be nice if I gave myself one. Deep breath. ..."
5. Criminal Justice: New Technologies And The Constitution (1989)
"... be "shocking to the conscience of reasonably civilized people"; but courts
have allowed lobotomies to be performed on involuntarily committed patients. ..."
6. A Few Kind Words about Hate: The Dark Side of Family Life and the Bible by Una Stannard (2007)
"It's as if we had lobotomies, which merge us into the mass of confused beings
who wander about at the mercy of parents, teachers, ministers, gurus, ..."
7. Violent Youth Predator Act of 1996; And Balanced Juvenile Justice and Crime by United States, Subcommittee on Crime, Congress, Committee on the Judiciary, House (1997)
"... the prosecutor from Marion County, IN, that all too often the juvenile justice
system only has aspirin or lobotomies to offer and not much in between. ..."
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