The electrifying, forgotten history of Robert Heath's brain pacemaker, investigating the origins and ethics of one of today's most promising medical breakthroughs: deep brain stimulation The technology invented by psychiatrist Robert G.
Heath at Tulane University in the 1950s and '60s has been described as one of ``the most controversial yet largely undocumented experiments in US history``--controversial to us because Heath's research subjects included incarcerated convicts and gay me.
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Dutton Books The pleasure shock: the rise of deep brain stimulation and its forgotten inventor, hardcover/lone frank
