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Lobotomies. How a Lobotomy Works. Effects of Lobotomies. Before After. Effects. Reduced temper Calm and complacent personality Vegetative state death. What’s wrong with Walter Freeman. Befriended prominent journalists
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Effects of Lobotomies Before After Effects • Reduced temper • Calm and complacent personality • Vegetative state • death
What’s wrong with Walter Freeman • Befriended prominent journalists • Began performing lobotomies before proper studies conducted • Serious death rate • Preformed lobotomies on children
The Case of Howard Dully • given a lobotomy at age 12 • At insistence of his step-mother • Symptoms : • Aversion to bed time • Aversion to baths Dully as a child Dully today
Ethics! Ethics! Ethics! Problem • Ethics • a. A set of principles of right conduct. • b. A theory or a system of moral values • Befriended prominent journalists • Began performing lobotomies before proper studies conducted • Serious death rate • Preformed lobotomies on children
Solution • Ethical issues not unique to lobotomies • Organization or administration to monitor procedures • Set of written rules to be followed • Must past several examination by this organization • Monotor death rate from procedure
Organization Medical professional Preset ethical rules New procedure Send professionals to monitor new procedures Train professionals Begin marketing new procedure Must be approved by organization