Shock therapy : a history of electroconvulsive treatment in mental illness

Type:
boek
Titel:
Shock therapy : a history of electroconvulsive treatment in mental illness
Auteur:
Shorter, Edward; Healy, David
Jaar:
2007
Onderwerp:
Electroconvulsive Therapy History
Electroconvulsive therapy History
History, 20th Century
Mental disorders Therapy
Behandeling
ECT
Elektroshock
Psychiatrie (Geschiedenis-)
Psychiatrie
Therapie
Taal:
Engels
Uitgever:
New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2007
Plaatsnummer:
ISBN:
0813541697
9780813541693
Paginering:
Xii, 382 p. : ill.
Samenvatting:
The penicillin of psychiatry? -- "Some experiments on the biological influencing of the course of schizophrenia" -- "Madness cured with electricity" -- From the university clinic to the psychiatric institute: shock therapy goes global -- The couch or the treatment table? -- "ECT does not create zombies" -- "They're going to fry your brains!" -- The end of "Bedlam" and the age of psychopharmacology -- The swinging pendulum: the effects of politics, law, and changes in medical culture on ECT -- Electrogirl and the new ECT -- Magnets and implants: new therapies for a new century? -- Epilogue: irrational science.
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