Swedish Big Brother behind lobotomies in the 1940s and 1950s

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Sweden was more accepting than the US in its attitude toward lobotomy in the 1940s and 1950s. A possible explanation for this may be the strength of paternalism in Sweden, that is, a greater tendency to make decisions on behalf of the patient in Swedish medical culture than in its American counterpart. This is according to Kenneth Ögren from Umeå University in Sweden. Psychosurgery, with its roots in Switzerland, Portugal, and the US, came to be widely used in the modern mental hospitals in Sweden of the late 1940s. Umedalen Hospital, Sidsjö Hospital, Beckomberga Hospital, and Lillhagen Hospital had soon operated on hundreds of patients.

 

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