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Rosemary's condition was revealed publicly by her sister Eunice Kennedy in a 1962 interview to The Saturday Evening Post, but her lobotomy did not become public knowledge until 1987, when historian Doris Kearns Goodwin revealed it in her book The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys.
Oct 3, 2015 · Rosemary was the lost Kennedy daughter; disabled from birth, she was left profoundly damaged after a lobotomy at the age of 23. But she had a lasting influence on her family's charitable...
Jan 24, 2024 · Lobotomy. In their search for cures for Rosemary, the Kennedys learned about a new experimental procedure, a lobotomy. This brain surgery would supposedly reduce depression and aggressiveness in patients but was not yet accepted by the American Medical Association.
Oct 14, 2015 · When she was just 23, Rosemary Kennedy underwent a relatively new procedure – a prefrontal lobotomy – that was ordered by her father in an attempt to ease her emotional outbursts. Instead,...
Nov 21, 2022 · By. Liz McNeil. Updated on November 21, 2022 03:44PM EST. More than eight decades ago, JFK's troubled sister Rosemary was left disabled by a disastrous lobotomy ordered by her father. Two books...
Jan 30, 2021 · Lobotomy: The brain op described as ‘easier than curing a toothache’. 29 January 2021. Wellcome Collection. Lobotomy instruments that once belonged to Walter Freeman. There was a time when...
Jun 19, 2020 · Rosemary Kennedy's lobotomy. The lobotomy – a new 'psycho-surgical' operation that involved separation or removal of pathways between lobes of the brain – was believed to be a cure for a multitude of psychological delinquencies such as alcoholism and ‘nymphomania’ [the term given to uncontrollable and excessive sexual desire].
