Freeman, Walter
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1895 - 1972
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Walter Freeman autobiography
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MSS 2/014-02
Scope and Contents
Unbound typescript autobiography of Walter Freeman, written 1961-1970, discussing Freeman’s life, Keen
and Freeman families, his father, Walter J. Freeman, and Freeman’s work in neurology, neuropathology,
psychosurgery, and schizophrenia. Notable subjects are: Freeman’s work and disagreement with James W.
Watts on prefrontal and transorbital lobotomy; the second International Neurological Congress (1935);
Freeman’s follow-up studies of lobotomy patients; establishment of the El Camino Hospital...
Dates:
1961 - 1970
Walter Freeman correspondence
Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 2/014-01
Scope and Contents
This small collection of letters from Walter Freeman to two Japanese
neurosurgeons, Mizuho Nakata and Sadao Hirose, gives some indication
of Freeman's own views on psychosurgery and lobotomy and is
also filled with personal information on Freeman's career and
family. There are no original items in the collection, only
photocopies of original material in the possession of either
Franklin Freeman or Sadao Hirose.The 1948 letter to Mizuho Nakata from Walter Freeman discusses
a...
Dates:
1848; 1955-1972
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