Megan McArdle has been writing and, in greater depth, speaking lately about Walter Freeman, the popularizer of the icepick lobotomy. She’s not trying to reform his reputation so much as she seems to be trying to redeem some meta-cognitive lesson from his career, horrible as it was.
The hedgehog and the lobotomist
The hedgehog and the lobotomist
The hedgehog and the lobotomist
Megan McArdle has been writing and, in greater depth, speaking lately about Walter Freeman, the popularizer of the icepick lobotomy. She’s not trying to reform his reputation so much as she seems to be trying to redeem some meta-cognitive lesson from his career, horrible as it was.