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" Shock therapy : "
Edward Shorter, David Healy
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BL
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636178
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Shorter, Edward
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Shock therapy : : a history of electroconvulsive treatment in mental illness /\ Edward Shorter, David Healy
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New Brunswick, N.J. :: Rutgers University Press,, c2007
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xii, 382 p. :: ill. ;; 24 cm
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9780813541693 (hardcover : alk. paper)
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: 0813541697 (hardcover : alk. paper)
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [299]-362) and index
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| Contents
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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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Electroconvulsive therapy-- History
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Electroconvulsive Therapy-- history
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History, 20th Century
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Mental Disorders-- therapy
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| Dewey Classification
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616.89/122
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RC485.S56 2007
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WM 11.1S559s 2007
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Healy, David,MRC Psych
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