Doctors of Deception : : What They Don't Want You to Know about Shock Treatment /

Doctors of Deception : : What They Don't Want You to Know about Shock Treatment / / Linda Andre.

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Mechanisms and standards exist to safeguard the health and welfare of the patient, but for electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)-used to treat depression and other mental illnesses-such approval methods have failed. Prescribed to thousands over the years, public relations as opposed to medical trials have...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Rutgers University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
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Andre, Linda,
Place / Publishing House:New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2009]
©2009
Year of Publication:2009
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (376 p.) :; 6
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes on Terminology
  • 1. The Trouble with Time
  • 2. Eugenic Conceptions I: Ticking Time Bombs
  • 3. Eugenic Conceptions II: Useless Eaters
  • 4. A Little Brain Pathology
  • 5. Informed Consent and the Dawn of the Public Relations Era
  • 6. The American Psychiatric Association Task Force
  • 7. The Making of an American Activist
  • 8. The ECT Industry Cows the Media
  • 9. Long Strange Trip: ECT at the Food and Drug Administration
  • 10. The Committee for Truth in Psychiatry
  • 11. Anecdote or Evidence?
  • 12. Shaming Science
  • 13. The Lie That Won't Die
  • 14. Erasing History
  • 15. The Triumph of Public Relations over Science
  • 16. Should ECT Be Banned? The Moral Context
  • 17. Where Do We Go from Here?
  • Epilogue
  • Appendix: Letters from FDA Docket No. 82P-0316
  • Notes
  • Resources
  • Index
  • About the Author

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