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Doctors of Deception: What They Don´t Want You to Know about Shock Treatment
Linda Andre
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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 illnesses—such approval methods have failed. Prescribed to thousands over the years, public relations as opposed to medical trials have paved the way for this popular yet dangerous and controversial treatment option.
Doctors of Deception is a revealing history of ECT (or shock therapy) in the United States, told here for the first time. Through the examination of court records, medical data, FDA reports, industry claims, her own experience as a patient of shock therapy, ... Read more
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 illnesses—such approval methods have failed. Prescribed to thousands over the years, public relations as opposed to medical trials have paved the way for this popular yet dangerous and controversial treatment option.
Doctors of Deception is a revealing history of ECT (or shock therapy) in the United States, told here for the first time. Through the examination of court records, medical data, FDA reports, industry claims, her own experience as a patient of shock therapy, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Rutgers University Press United States
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
Number of Pages
376
Place of Publication
New Brunswick NJ, United States
ISBN
9780813544410
SKU
V9780813544410
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About Linda Andre
Linda Andre is a writer, activist, and the director of the Committee for Truth in Psychiatry. Since receiving ECT in the early 1980s, she has been an advocate for the human and civil rights of psychiatrically labelled people, particularly the right to truthful informed consent. She has been interviewed by numerous publications and media such as 20/20, the New York ... Read more
Reviews for Doctors of Deception: What They Don´t Want You to Know about Shock Treatment
"This book is absolutely fascinating and extraordinarily well-written. It is a major contribution to the current literature."
Michael Perlin
Professor of Law, New York Law School
"Linda Andre's book is both a powerful memoir of her own experience as an ECT 'patient' and a documented account of the underbelly of the 'shock industry.' It raises profound questions ... Read more
Michael Perlin
Professor of Law, New York Law School
"Linda Andre's book is both a powerful memoir of her own experience as an ECT 'patient' and a documented account of the underbelly of the 'shock industry.' It raises profound questions ... Read more