Pushbutton Psychiatry
Subtitle: A Cultural History of Electric Shock Therapy in America
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Published: 2009
Language: eng
Number of pages: 164
ISBN-13: 9781598743630
Subjects: Electroconvulsive therapy
Description: From the Publisher: This volume uncovers the roots of electroshock in America, an outgrowth of western patriarchal medicine with primarily female patients, with a new epilogue bringing the research up to the present.