a history of electroconvulsive treatment in mental illness /
First Statement of Responsibility
Edward Shorter, David Healy
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
New Brunswick, N.J. :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Rutgers University Press,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
c2007
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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xii, 382 p. :
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ill. ;
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24 cm
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [299]-362) and index
CONTENTS NOTE
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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