One example of a description in "Burn Your Brains Out" included the detailing of the insertion of electrode needles into an inmate's brain in order to burn out the part that was deemed to be a description of amygdalotomy.  

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Neither "Burn Your Brains Out" or "Vacaville 'Medical' Facility" used the words psychosurgery or lobotomy, despite the discussion of psychosurgery. However both articles detailed the procedures performed.

Terminology in "Burn Your Brains Out" and "Vacaville 'Medical' Facility"

Schalk, Sami. Black Disability Politics, New York, USA: Duke University Press, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781478027003

Black Disability Politics

Example of Terminology used in "Bun Your Brains Out"

- Centering of Disabled People of Color
- Critical Stance Towards Medical Professionals
- Not Distancing Blackness from Disability
- Critique of the Black Panther's Coverage

Approaches taken by the Black Panther in Psychosurgery Articles

Schalk makes particular note of how the word psychosurgery was not used until "Tearing Out Our Thoughts: Psychosurgery and the Black Community," I have two thoughts as to why this is. 

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