Pushbutton Psychiatry: A Cultural History of Electric Shock in America by Carol A. B. Warren, Timothy W. Kneeland

Pushbutton Psychiatry: A Cultural History of Electric Shock in America

Carol A. B. Warren, Timothy W. Kneeland

135 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction health psychology sociology informative medium-paced
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This volume uncovers the roots of electroshock in America, an outgrowth of western patriarchal medicine with primarily female patients. The authors trace the history of electroshock in the United States in three historic stages: from an enthusiast...

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