Pushbutton Psychiatry
Subtitle: A History of Electroshock in America
Publisher: Praeger Publishers; Praeger
Published: March 30, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9780275968151
Subjects: History of medicine; Psychiatry; General; Psychiatry - General; Sociology - General; Psychology & Psychiatry / General; Medical; Medical / Nursing; 20th century; Electroconvulsive therapy; History; United States
First sentence: The eighteenth century in America, as in France and Britain, was a time of profound political and social changes, with electrotherapeutics, as well as politics, in ferment on both sides of the Atlantic.