PUSHBUTTON PSYCHIATRY: A CULTURAL HISTORY OF ELECTRIC SHOCK THERAPY IN AMERICA, UPDATED PAPERBACK EDITION
- ISBN-10
- 1598743635
- ISBN-13
- 9781598743630
- Category
- Medical
- Pages
- 135
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2008
- Publisher
- Left Coast Press
- Authors
- Timothy W Kneeland, Carol A.B. Warren
Description
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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- 2016-06-03
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- 2016-06-03
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- 2002
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- Greenwood Publishing Group
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