Ontario's Leucotomy Program: The Roles of Patient, Physician, and Profession

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dc.contributor.advisorStam, Henderikus
dc.contributor.authorCollins, Brianne
dc.date.accessioned2012-10-03T21:41:41Z
dc.date.available2012-11-13T08:01:48Z
dc.date.issued2012-10-03
dc.date.submitted2012en
dc.description.abstractPsychosurgery has a long, colourful, and often tumultuous history in which it has been viewed as both a panacea and a horror-show. Although research on the topic has been conducted in the United States and Europe, very little research exists on psychosurgery in Canada. Where scholars have examined Canada, only a cursory overview of Ontario’s experience has been provided. As a result, many questions remain unanswered including how the program was administrated, how patients were chosen as candidates for the procedure, and who the leucotomized were. In order to address the gap in the literature, this thesis presents a detailed account of psychosurgery in Ontario by investigating the roles of profession, physician, and patient. The leucotomy program in Ontario began in 1941 and continued into the mid-1960s, the process used to administer the treatment was bureaucratically organized and streamlined, and over 1,400 patients were leucotomized during this controversial era.en_US
dc.identifier.citationCollins, B. (2012). Ontario's Leucotomy Program: The Roles of Patient, Physician, and Profession (Master's thesis, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada). Retrieved from https://prism.ucalgary.ca. doi:10.11575/PRISM/27189en_US
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.11575/PRISM/27189
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11023/294
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisher.facultyGraduate Studies
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Calgaryen
dc.publisher.placeCalgaryen
dc.rightsUniversity of Calgary graduate students retain copyright ownership and moral rights for their thesis. You may use this material in any way that is permitted by the Copyright Act or through licensing that has been assigned to the document. For uses that are not allowable under copyright legislation or licensing, you are required to seek permission.
dc.subjectCanadian
dc.subjectHistory of Science
dc.subjectMedicine and Surgery
dc.subject.classificationPsychosurgeryen_US
dc.subject.classificationLeucotomyen_US
dc.subject.classificationLobotomyen_US
dc.subject.classificationPsychiatryen_US
dc.subject.classificationNeurosurgeryen_US
dc.subject.classificationMental Illnessen_US
dc.titleOntario's Leucotomy Program: The Roles of Patient, Physician, and Profession
dc.typemaster thesis
thesis.degree.disciplinePsychology
thesis.degree.grantorUniversity of Calgary
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Science (MSc)
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