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Walter Freeman correspondence

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Identifier: MSS 2/014-01
Scope and Contents This small collection of letters from Walter Freeman to two Japanese neurosurgeons, Mizuho Nakata and Sadao Hirose, gives some indication of Freeman's own views on psychosurgery and lobotomy and is also filled with personal information on Freeman's career and family. There are no original items in the collection, only photocopies of original material in the possession of either Franklin Freeman or Sadao Hirose.The 1948 letter to Mizuho Nakata from Walter Freeman discusses a...
Dates: 1848; 1955-1972
Found in: Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia / Walter Freeman correspondence

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