Psychosurgery: ethical issues and a proposal for control

Am J Orthopsychiatry. 1974 Oct;44(5):661-74. doi: 10.1111/j.1939-0025.1974.tb01145.x.
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Publication types

  • Historical Article
  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Aggression
  • Amygdala / surgery
  • Antisocial Personality Disorder / therapy
  • Behavior Control
  • Child
  • Child, Preschool
  • Depression / therapy
  • Electric Stimulation
  • Ethics, Medical*
  • Gyrus Cinguli / surgery
  • History, 19th Century
  • History, 20th Century
  • Humans
  • Informed Consent
  • Intellectual Disability / etiology
  • Male
  • Mental Disorders / therapy
  • Models, Neurological
  • Persons with Psychiatric Disorders
  • Prisons
  • Psychosurgery* / adverse effects
  • Psychosurgery* / history
  • Psychosurgery* / standards
  • Risk Assessment
  • Schizophrenia / therapy
  • Social Control, Formal
  • Thalamus / surgery