Shock therapy
Shorter, Edward.
Shock therapy a history of electroconvulsive treatment in mental illness / [electronic resource] : Edward Shorter, David Healy. - New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2007. - xii, 382 p. : ill.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [299]-362) and index.
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.
Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2013.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Electroconvulsive therapy--History.
Electronic books.
RC485 / .S56 2007eb
616.89/122
Shock therapy a history of electroconvulsive treatment in mental illness / [electronic resource] : Edward Shorter, David Healy. - New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2007. - xii, 382 p. : ill.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [299]-362) and index.
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.
Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2013.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Electroconvulsive therapy--History.
Electronic books.
RC485 / .S56 2007eb
616.89/122