As a young girl in the early 1900s, Rosemary Kennedy—the eldest daughter of the auspicious Kennedy family—was beautiful, affectionate, and mild-mannered. But her life story pivots on what became perhaps the century's most chilling manifestation of the fear, shame, and ignorance that surrounds mental health: the lobotomy.Check out her (rather gruesome) story in Vice.
Saturday, November 7, 2015
Rosemary Kennedy and the Legacy of Mental Illness
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