Doctors of deception
Subtitle: what they don't want you to know about shock treatment
By: Linda Andre.
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New Brunswick, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 359
ISBN-13: 9780813544410
Subjects: Shock therapy; Electroconvulsive therapy; Electroconvulsive Therapy -- adverse effects; Electroconvulsive Therapy -- ethics; Electroconvulsive Therapy -- history; Informed Consent; Mental Disorders -- therapy; Treatment Outcome
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The trouble with time; title: Eugenic conceptions I: ticking time bombs; title: Eugenic conceptions II: useless eaters; title: A little brain pathology; title: Informed consent and the dawn of the public relations era; title: The American Psychiatric Association Task Force; title: The making of an American activist; title: The ECT industry cows the media; title: Long strange trip : ECT and the food and drug administration; title: The Committee for Truth in Psychiatry; title: Anecdote or evidence?; title: Shaming science; title: The lie that won't die; title: Erasing history; title: The triumph of public relations over science; title: Should shock be banned? : the moral context; title: Where do we go from here?