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Electroconvulsive Therapy in America - The Anatomy of a Medical Controversy (Paperback)
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Electroconvulsive Therapy in America - The Anatomy of a Medical Controversy (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Studies in Cultural History
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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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