Doctors of deception what they don't want you to know about shock treatment /

Main Author: Andre, Linda, 1959-
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2009.
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Online Access:http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10281503
Table of 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?