NMC Library
Image from Google Jackets

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

By: Publication details: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2009.Description: xi, 359 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 9780813544410 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  • 0813544416 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 616.89/12 22
LOC classification:
  • RC485 .A53 2009
NLM classification:
  • WM 412
Online resources:
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?

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?

There are no comments on this title.

to post a comment.

Powered by Koha