Electroconvulsive Therapy in America (häftad)
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Inbunden (Hardback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
182
Utgivningsdatum
2016-11-11
Förlag
Routledge
Dimensioner
231 x 155 x 15 mm
Vikt
386 g
Antal komponenter
1
ISBN
9781138696969

Electroconvulsive Therapy in America

The Anatomy of a Medical Controversy

av Jonathan Sadowsky
Inbunden,  Engelska, 2016-11-11
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Electroconvulsive Therapy is widely demonized or idealized. Some detractors consider its very use to be a human rights violation, while some promoters depict it as a miracle, the "penicillin of psychiatry." This book traces the American history of one of the most controversial procedures in medicine, and seeks to provide an explanation of why ECT has been so controversial, juxtaposing evidence from clinical science, personal memoir, and popular culture. Contextualizing the controversies about ECT, instead of simply engaging in them, makes the history of ECT more richly revealing of wider changes in culture and medicine. It shows that the application of electricity to the brain to treat illness is not only a physiological event, but also one embedded in culturally patterned beliefs about the human body, the meaning of sickness, and medical authority.
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Jonathan Sadowsky is the Theodore J. Castele Professor of Medical History at Case Western Reserve University.

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Introduction 1. Origins and Origin Myths 2. Trying to Make Progress 3. Therapeutic Disciplines 4. "What of His Psychology?": ECT and Psychoanalysis 5. "Total Rejection of Psychiatry": ECT and the Antipsychiatry Movement 6. The History of a Side Effect: ECT and Memory Loss Conclusion

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