Focal infection theory
Subject in History
Focal infection theory has come up in 1 episode across 1 podcast in TMT, including Lex Fridman Podcast. 1 person has made recorded remarks about it.
What people said
Andrew ScullBritish-American sociologist and historian of psychiatry, emeritus professor at UC San Diego
Scull says nearly half of Henry Cotton's abdominal surgery patients died within a year despite claims of cure.
“in reality, 45 percent of the people who get the abdominal surgery die”
Lex Fridman Podcast: #502 – Psychiatry, Insane Asylums, Mental Illness, ECT, Lobotomies, Freud & Jung (Sep 17, 2026) · Listen from 1:17:08
Podcasts
- Lex Fridman Podcast · 1 episode
Episodes
#502 – Psychiatry, Insane Asylums, Mental Illness, ECT, Lobotomies, Freud & JungLex Fridman Podcast · Sep 17, 2026
Historian Andrew Scull talks with Lex Fridman about the history of psychiatry, from asylums, eugenics, lobotomy and ECT to Freud, CBT, psychiatric drugs and psychiatry's current crisis.