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『ぼくの脳を返して――ロボトミー手術に翻弄されたある少年の物語』

Dully, Howard ; Fleming, Charles 2007 My Lobotomy: A Memoir, Three Rivers Press→2008 ペーパーバック版,Broadway, 304p.
=20091130 平林 祥 訳,WAVE出版,400p.

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■Dully, Howard ; Fleming, Charles 2007 My Lobotomy: A Memoir, Three Rivers Press→2008 ペーパーバック版,Broadway, 304p. ISBN-10: 0307381277 ISBN-13: 978-0307381279 [amazon][kinokuniya]=20091130 平林 祥 訳,『ぼくの脳を返して――ロボトミー手術に翻弄されたある少年の物語』,WAVE出版,400p. ISBN-10: 4872904443 ISBN-13: 978-4872904444 1900+ [amazon][kinokuniya] ※ m. ps.

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「私の名はハワード・ダリー。1960年、12歳のときにロボトミー手術を受けた」
養母によって"悪魔の手術"ロボトミーを受けさせられた、ごく普通の少年だったハワードは、54歳になったとき、医学界の恥ずべき歴史の1ページを暴き出すことになる。本書は家族に捨てられ、10代を精神病院、20代を拘置所、30代を酒場で過ごした男の力強くも感動的な生き様を描いた、生存者の物語。
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「私の名はハワード・ダリー。一九六〇年、一二歳のときにロボトミー手術を受けた」―ごく普通のやんちゃな少年だったハワードは、養母によって“悪魔の手術”ロボトミーを受けさせられた。彼が五四歳になったとき、医学界の恥ずべき歴史の一ページを暴き出すことになる。本書は家族に捨てられ、一〇代を精神病院、二〇代を拘置所、三〇代を酒場で過ごした男の力強くも感動的な生き様を描いた、生存者の物語。
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目次 母ジューン
養母ルー
エッジウッド七六二番地
悶着
フリーマン博士
ハワード・ダリ(父ロドニー・L)
マイ・ロボトミー
無邪気な子ども
精神病院
ランチョ・リンダ
再入院
ホームレス
バーバラ

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■目次

 1960年12月に手術(138-)
 1961発表。不評を買う。
 2005年にラジオ番組に出演。

 「ロボトミーは全米中に広く、速く普及していった。フリーマンの指導を受けた何十人という医師たちが、自ら手術をおこなうようになった。施術数の公式記録は残されていないがが、フリーマンはそのキャリアにおいて合計三五〇〇人に施術したと言われる。また、彼が指導した医師たちの施術数は四万件以上とされる。
 やがてフリーマンのロボトミー手術は支持者が減少し始めた。一九五〇年代初頭には、以前として一般的な手術とみなされていたものの、長期的なメリットが疑問視されるようになっていた。そして一九五四年、米食品医薬品局(FDA)が抗精神薬クロルプロマジンを認可。国内ではソラジンの商標名で販売される幼稚なった。フリーマンはこれを「化学物質によるロボトミー」と一蹴し、非効率的な方法と断定した。薬品に頼る場合、患者は一生薬を飲みつづけなければならない。一方、手術は一生に一度受ければいい。だが医療界はソラジンの登場を歓迎し、それ以後も同様の医薬品が開発された。これらの医薬品は管理が容易で、管理するための特別な訓練も不要な上、致命的な副作用を引き起こす恐れもなく、恒常的な損傷を被ることなくいつでも<0108<服用をやめられた。」(Dully & Fleming[2007,2008=2009:108-109])

■言及

◆立岩 真也 2011/09/01 「社会派の行き先・11――連載 70」,『現代思想』39-13(2011-9):34-46

◆2011/10/01 「社会派の行き先・12――連載 71」,『現代思想』39-(2011-10): 資料

 「そして、例えば薬物療法が正当化されるなら外科的処置をも原理的には否定できないという立場は成立しうる――このことに関わる記述がロボトミーの創始者モニスについて記すSlater[2004=2005:360-364]にあり、またフリーマンは抗精神薬クロルブロマイジンが使われるようになった時に、「「化学物質によるロボトミー」と一蹴し、非効率的な方法と断定した」のだという(Dully & Fleming[2007,2008=2009:108])。こうして話は終わっていない。だから、これらの時代のことを知っておく必要もまたある。」

■英語版広告

  At twelve, Howard Dully was guilty of the same crimes as other boys his age: he was moody and messy, rambunctious with his brothers, contrary just to prove a point, and perpetually at odds with his parents. Yet somehow, this normal boy became one of the youngest people on whom Dr. Walter Freeman performed his barbaric transorbital?or ice pick?lobotomy.
  Abandoned by his family within a year of the surgery, Howard spent his teen years in mental institutions, his twenties in jail, and his thirties in a bottle. It wasn’t until he was in his forties that Howard began to pull his life together. But even as he began to live the “normal” life he had been denied, Howard struggled with one question: Why?
  “October 8, 1960. I gather that Mrs. Dully is perpetually talking, admonishing, correcting, and getting worked up into a spasm, whereas her husband is impatient, explosive, rather brutal, won’t let the boy speak for himself, and calls him numbskull, dimwit, and other uncomplimentary names.”
  There were only three people who would know the truth: Freeman, the man who performed the procedure; Lou, his cold and demanding stepmother who brought Howard to the doctor’s attention; and his father, Rodney. Of the three, only Rodney, the man who hadn’t intervened on his son’s behalf, was still living. Time was running out. Stable and happy for the first time in decades, Howard began to search for answers.
  “December 3, 1960. Mr. and Mrs. Dully have apparently decided to have Howard operated on. I suggested [they] not tell Howard anything about it.”
  Through his research, Howard met other lobotomy patients and their families, talked with one of Freeman’s sons about his father’s controversial life’s work, and confronted Rodney about his complicity. And, in the archive where the doctor’s files are stored, he finally came face to face with the truth.
  Revealing what happened to a child no one?not his father, not the medical community, not the state?was willing to protect, My Lobotomy exposes a shameful chapter in the history of the treatment of mental illness. Yet, ultimately, this is a powerful and moving chronicle of the life of one man. Without reticence, Howard Dully shares the story of a painfully dysfunctional childhood, a misspent youth, his struggle to claim the life that was taken from him, and his redemption.

From the Hardcover edition.
From Publishers Weekly
  At age 12, in 1960, Dully received a transorbital or ice pick lobotomy from Dr. Walter Freeman, who invented the procedure, making Dully an unfortunate statistic in medical history?the youngest of the more than 10,000 patients who Freeman lobotomized to cure their supposed mental illness. In this brutally honest memoir, Dully, writing with Fleming (The Ivory Coast), describes how he set out 40 years later to find out why he was lobotomized, since he did not exhibit any signs of mental instability at the time, and why, postoperation, he was bounced between various institutions and then slowly fell into a life of drug and alcohol abuse. His journey?first described in a National Public Radio feature in 2005?finds Dully discovering how deeply he was the victim of an unstable stepmother who systematically abused him and who then convinced his distant father that a lobotomy was the answer to Dully's acting out against her psychic torture. He also investigates the strange career of Freeman?who wasn't a licensed psychiatrist?including early acclaim by the New York Times and cross-country trips hawking the operation from his Lobotomobile. But what is truly stunning is Dully's description of how he gained strength and a sense of self-worth by understanding how both Freeman and his stepmother were victims of their own family tragedies, and how he managed to somehow forgive them for the wreckage they caused in his life. (Sept.)
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