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Doctors of deception : what they don't want you to know about shock treatment / Linda Andre.
LIBRA RC485 .A53 2009
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Andre, Linda, 1959-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Shock therapy.
- Electroconvulsive therapy.
- Electroconvulsive Therapy--adverse effects.
- Electroconvulsive Therapy--ethics.
- Electroconvulsive Therapy--history.
- Informed Consent.
- Mental Disorders--therapy.
- Treatment Outcome.
- Medical Subjects:
- Electroconvulsive Therapy--adverse effects.
- Electroconvulsive Therapy--ethics.
- Electroconvulsive Therapy--history.
- Informed Consent.
- Mental Disorders--therapy.
- Treatment Outcome.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 359 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, [2009]
- Contents:
- The trouble with time
- Eugenic conceptions I : ticking time bombs
- Eugenic conceptions II : useless eaters
- A little brain pathology
- Informed consent and the dawn of the public relations era
- The American Psychiatric Association Task Force
- The making of an American activist
- The ECT industry cows the media
- Long strange trip : ECT and the food and drug administration
- The Committee for Truth in Psychiatry
- Anecdote or evidence?
- Shaming science
- The lie that won't die
- Erasing history
- The triumph of public relations over science
- Should shock be banned? : the moral context
- Where do we go from here?
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 316-348) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780813544410
- 0813544416
- OCLC:
- 218190069
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