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

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Year of Publication:2009
Language:English
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Physical Description:xi, 359 p. :; ill. ;; 25 cm.
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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?