Shock therapy : a history of electroconvulsive treatment in mental illness / Edward Shorter, David Healy

Author:: Shorter, Edward
Published:: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, [2007]
Copyright Date:: ©2007
Physical Description:: xii, 382 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Additional Creators:: Healy, David, 1954-

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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.

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ISBN:

9780813541693 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0813541697 (hardcover : alk. paper)

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Includes bibliographical references (pages [299]-362) and index.

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