Description |
xxvii, 135 pages ; 25 cm |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 107-129) and index. |
Contents |
Introduction: Electricity, Psychiatry, and American Culture xvii -- Part I The Electrotherapeutic Origins of Pushbutton Psychiatry 1 -- 1 The Eighteenth Century: The Electric Stage 3 -- 2 The Nineteenth Century: The Woman on the Couch 21 -- Part II The Electroconvulsive Century 41 -- 3 The Birth and Triumph of Pushbutton Psychiatry: Electroshock, 1938-1965 43 -- 4 Rage Against the Machine: The Decline of Electroshock, 1966-1980 63 -- 5 Pushbutton Triumphant: The Rebirth of Electroshock, 1981-1999 85 -- Epilogue: Into the Twenty-First Century 103. |
Summary |
Annotation Provides a historical and sociological analysis of electroshock within the parameters of American social, political, and economic institutions. |
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Annotation The history of electroshock in the United States in three historic stages is chronicled as it alternated from an enthusiastic reception in 1940, to a period of crisis in the 1960s, to its resurgence after 1980. Early American experiments with electrical medicine are also examined, while the development of electroshock in America is considered through the lens of social, political, and economic factors, as is the revival of electroshock in recent decades. |
Subject |
Electroconvulsive therapy -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Electroconvulsive Therapy -- history. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D004565Q000266
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United States. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D014481
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Electroconvulsive therapy. (OCoLC)fst00906393
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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Elektroshocktherapie.
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United States.
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Chronological Term |
1900-1999
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Geschichte 1700-1999
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Genre/Form |
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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Added Author |
Warren, Carol A. B., 1944-
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Other Form: |
Online version: Kneeland, Timothy W., 1962- Pushbutton psychiatry. Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2002 (OCoLC)606796228 |
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Online version: Kneeland, Timothy W., 1962- Pushbutton psychiatry. Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2002 (OCoLC)607901916 |
ISBN |
0275968154 (alk. paper) |
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9780275968151 (alk. paper) |
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