Editing Lobotomy (section)

== Prevalence ==
In the United States, approximately 40,000 people were lobotomized and in England<!--NOT UK or Great Britain-->, 17,000 lobotomies were performed. According to one estimate, in the three Nordic countries of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden, a combined figure of approximately 9,300 lobotomies were performed.{{sfn|Tranøy|Blomberg|2005|p=107|ps=}} Scandinavian hospitals lobotomized 2.5 times as many people per capita as hospitals in the US.{{sfn|Tranøy|1996|pp=1–20|ps=}} According to another estimate, Sweden lobotomized at least 4,500 people between 1944 and 1966, mainly women. This figure includes young children.{{sfn|Ogren|Sandlund|2005|pp=353–67|ps=}} And in Norway, there were 2,005 known lobotomies.{{sfn|Goldbeck-Wood|1996|pp=708–09|ps=}} In Denmark, there were 4,500 known lobotomies.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.jmhs.dk/PDF-files/Aarbog/2007/Kragh9-36.pdf |title=Jesper Vaczy Kragh: "Sidste udvej? Træk af psykokirurgiens historie i Danmark" (''Dansk Medicinhistorisk Årbog'' 2007) |access-date=20 January 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305005244/http://www.jmhs.dk/PDF-files/Aarbog/2007/Kragh9-36.pdf |archive-date=5 March 2016 }}</ref> In Japan, the majority of lobotomies were performed on children with behaviour problems. The Soviet Union banned the practice in 1950 on moral grounds.<ref>{{harvnb|Lichterman|1993|pp=1–4}}</ref><ref>{{harvnb|USSR Ministry of Health|1951|pp=17–18|ps=}}</ref>{{sfn|Diefenbach|Diefenbach|Baumeister|West|1999|pp=60–69|ps=}} In Germany, it was performed only a few times.<ref>Bangen, Hans: Geschichte der medikamentösen Therapie der Schizophrenie. Berlin 1992, {{ISBN|3-927408-82-4}}</ref> By the late 1970s, the practice of lobotomy had generally ceased, although it continued as late as the 1980s in France.<ref>{{cite news|title=La neurochirurgie fonctionnelle d'affections psychiatriques sévères |publisher=[[Comité Consultatif National d'Ethique]] |date=2002-04-25 |url=http://www.ccne-ethique.fr/docs/fr/avis071.pdf |language=fr |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110720211020/http://www.ccne-ethique.fr/docs/fr/avis071.pdf |archive-date=2011-07-20 }} (French national consultative committee on ethics, opinion #71: Functional neurosurgery of severe psychiatric conditions)</ref>