Doctors of deception [electronic resource] : what they don't want you to know about shock treatment / Linda Andre.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2009.Description: xi, 359 p. : ill. ; 25 cmSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 616.89/12 22
LOC classification:
  • RC485 .A53 2009eb
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Contents:
The trouble with time -- Eugenic conceptions I : ticking time bombs -- Eugenic conceptions II : useless eaters -- A little brain pathology -- Informed consent and the dawn of the public relations era -- The American Psychiatric Association Task Force -- The making of an American activist -- The ECT industry cows the media -- Long strange trip : ECT and the food and drug administration -- The Committee for Truth in Psychiatry -- Anecdote or evidence? -- Shaming science -- The lie that won't die -- Erasing history -- The triumph of public relations over science -- Should shock be banned? : the moral context -- Where do we go from here?
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 316-348) and index.

The trouble with time -- Eugenic conceptions I : ticking time bombs -- Eugenic conceptions II : useless eaters -- A little brain pathology -- Informed consent and the dawn of the public relations era -- The American Psychiatric Association Task Force -- The making of an American activist -- The ECT industry cows the media -- Long strange trip : ECT and the food and drug administration -- The Committee for Truth in Psychiatry -- Anecdote or evidence? -- Shaming science -- The lie that won't die -- Erasing history -- The triumph of public relations over science -- Should shock be banned? : the moral context -- Where do we go from here?

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