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Shock therapy : a history of electroconvulsive treatment in mental illness / Edward Shorter, David Healy.
LIBRA RC485 .S56 2007
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Shorter, Edward.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Electroconvulsive therapy--History.
- Electroconvulsive therapy.
- Electroconvulsive Therapy--history.
- History, 20th Century.
- Mental Disorders--therapy.
- History.
- Medical Subjects:
- Electroconvulsive Therapy--history.
- History, 20th Century.
- Mental Disorders--therapy.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 382 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, [2007]
- Contents:
- The penicillin of psychiatry?
- "Some experiments on the biological influencing of the course of schizophrenia"
- "Madness cured with electricity"
- From the university clinic to the psychiatric institute: shock therapy goes global
- The couch or the treatment table?
- "ECT does not create zombies"
- "They're going to fry your brains!"
- The end of "Bedlam" and the age of psychopharmacology
- The swinging pendulum: the effects of politics, law, and changes in medical culture on ECT
- Electrogirl and the new ECT
- Magnets and implants: new therapies for a new century?
- Epilogue: irrational science.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [299]-362) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780813541693
- 0813541697
- OCLC:
- 76864297
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