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" Pushbutton psychiatry : "
by Timothy W. Kneeland, Carol A.B. Warren
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BL
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646091
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| Main Entry
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Kneeland, Timothy W.,1962-
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| Title & Author
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Pushbutton psychiatry : : a cultural history of electroshock in America /\ by Timothy W. Kneeland, Carol A.B. Warren
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Updated ed
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xxvii, 135 pages ;; 23 cm
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9781598743630
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: 1598743635
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| Notes
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Previous edition: Westport, Conn.; London: Praeger, 2002
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Includes bibliographical references (pages[107]-130) and index
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| Contents
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Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Electricity, psychiatry, and American culture -- Part 1: Electrotherapeutic Origins Of Pushbutton Psychiatry -- 1: Eighteenth century: the electric stage -- 2: Nineteenth century: the woman on the couch -- Part 2: Electroconvulsive Century -- 3: Birth and triumph of pushbutton psychiatry: electroshock, 1938-1965 -- 4: Rage against the machine: the decline of electroshock, 1966-1980 -- 5: Pushbutton triumphant: the rebirth of electroshock, 1981-1999 -- Epilogue: Into the twenty-first century -- Bibliography -- Index
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From the Publisher: This volume uncovers the roots of electroshock in America, an outgrowth of western patriarchal medicine with primarily female patients, with a new epilogue bringing the research up to the present
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Electroconvulsive therapy-- United States-- History-- 20th century
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616.891220973
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RC485.K645 2008
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Warren, Carol A. B.,1944-
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