Dramatic Story of an Habitual Criminal Who Made Medical History.
Account of the first frontal lobotomy performed on an organically sound brain; that of an habitual criminal.
In 1949 in the city of Pittsburgh, a house burglar named Millard Wright was convicted of his fourth offense. According to Pennsylvania legal statutes, he faced life imprisonment as a habitual criminal. . . Dr. Yale David Koskoff, a neurosurgeon in Pittsburgh, was approached by Wright's attorny, a well-known attorny named Louis Little. Little suggested that Millard Wright would be willing to submit to a lobotomy--an operation which severs the frontal lobes of the brain--in hopes of curing his criminal behavior. . .In highly dramatic prose, Yale David Koskoff and Richard Goldhurst tell for the first time the entire story of the burglar Millward Wright.
Dramatic Story of an Habitual Criminal Who Made Medical History.
Account of the first frontal lobotomy performed on an organically sound brain; that of an habitual criminal.
In 1949 in the city of Pittsburgh, a house burglar named Millard Wright was convicted of his fourth offense. According to Pennsylvania legal statutes, he faced life imprisonment as a habitual criminal. . . Dr. Yale David Koskoff, a neurosurgeon in Pittsburgh, was approached by Wright's attorny, a well-known attorny named Louis Little. Little suggested that Millard Wright would be willing to submit to a lobotomy--an operation which severs the frontal lobes of the brain--in hopes of curing his criminal behavior. . .In highly dramatic prose, Yale David Koskoff and Richard Goldhurst tell for the first time the entire story of the burglar Millward Wright.