Mentally handicapped Danes lobotomised until 1983

AFP: Mentally handicapped Danes lobotomised until 1983: historian: Many mentally handicapped Danes, including children, were lobotomised between 1947 and 1983, and many died from the operation, a historian behind a soon-to-be-published book on the topic told Danish media Thursday. 'The results of such operations generally were not good, and some 7.6 percent did not survive. What happened with people with mental handicaps is worse than what happened with psychiatric patients,' he said, referring to many operations performed on children as young as six years of age, even though their brains were not yet completely developed.

Related: Bulgarian mistreatment of disabled revealed