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

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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 illnessessuch approval methods have failed. Prescribed to thousands over the years, public relations as opposed to medical trials have p...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Andre, Linda, 1959-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©2009.
Temas:
Shock therapy.
Electroconvulsive therapy.
Informed consent (Medical law)
Mental illness > Treatment.
Outcome assessment (Medical care)
Electroconvulsive Therapy > adverse effects
Electroshock
Electroconvulsive Therapy
Truth Disclosure
Outcome and Process Assessment, Health Care
Outcome Assessment, Health Care
Electroconvulsive Therapy > ethics
Electroconvulsive Therapy > history
Informed Consent
Mental Disorders > therapy
Treatment Outcome
Sismothérapie (Psychothérapie)
Électrochoc.
Consentement éclairé (Droit médical)
Maladies mentales > Traitement.
Évaluation des résultats (Soins médicaux)
MEDICAL > Psychiatry > General.
MEDICAL > Mental Health.
Mental illness > Treatment
Electroconvulsive therapy
Shock therapy
Elektrokrampftherapie
Elektrokrampftherapie.
Medizinische Ethik.
USA
USA.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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?

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