Book
Shock therapy : a history of electroconvulsive treatment in mental illness
Record details
- ISBN: 9780813541693 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- ISBN: 0813541697 (hardcover : alk. paper)
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Physical Description:
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xii, 382 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. - Publisher: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2007.
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [299]-362) and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | 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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| Subject: | Electroconvulsive therapy -- History Electroconvulsive Therapy -- history History, 20th Century Mental Disorders -- therapy |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Camosun College Library.
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- 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Circulation Modifier | Holdable? | Status | Due Date | Courses |
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| Lansdowne Library | RC 485 S56 2007 (Text) | 26040002787345 | Main Collection | Volume hold | Available | - |
