#1351 - Claire Prentice

from Out Of The Blank · host Robbie Robertson

Claire Prentice is an award-winning journalist whose work has been published in the Washington Post, the London Times, the Guardian, the Sydney Morning Herald, BBC Online, Cosmopolitan, and Marie Claire. Claire joins me to speak about her book "Doctor Ice Pick" which is the bestselling true story of Walter Freeman, America’s most prolific lobotomist, and his state-sponsored 1950s campaign to empty psychiatric hospitals in West Virginia using his controversial procedure.

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