Walter Freeman made lobotomies mainstream, until horrifying mistakes left patients dead and damaged, exposing the dangers of ...

For example, after Freeman gave President John F. Kennedy's sister Rosemary a lobotomy, she was left permanently incapacitated. Another case involved a young boy named Henry Molaison. Freeman also ...

The Untold Story of JFK's Sister, Rosemary Kennedy, and Her Disastrous Lobotomy But it was Bridget's son — also "overlooked in some ways," Thompson says — who led the clan into politics.

If you are not one of the people who was deeply offended by U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s recent statements about the deficiencies of people with autism, I will ...

Eunice's older sister, Rosemary Kennedy, was born with intellectual ... Rosemary was revealed to the rest of the family: a botched lobotomy had left her wheelchair-bound with limited speech.

It is particularly tragic given the Kennedy family history, and an attempt to “cure” his aunt Rosemary of her developmental disability with a lobotomy in 1941, two years before Kanner’s ...