Shock therapy [electronic resource] : a history of electroconvulsive treatment in mental illness / Edward Shorter, David Healy.
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TextPublication details: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2007.Description: xii, 382 p. : illSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification: - 616.89/122 22
- RC485 .S56 2007eb
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.
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