LEADER 04778nam 22006374a 450 001 9910818435103321 005 20230721004927.0 010 $a1-282-03357-3 010 $a9786612033575 010 $a0-8135-4652-4 024 7 $a10.36019/9780813546520 035 $a(CKB)1000000000716198 035 $a(EBL)420822 035 $a(OCoLC)476253419 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000140519 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11159912 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000140519 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10053303 035 $a(PQKB)11187368 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC420822 035 $a(OCoLC)318675738 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse8066 035 $a(DE-B1597)526036 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780813546520 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL420822 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10281503 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL203357 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000716198 100 $a20080327d2009 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aDoctors of deception$b[electronic resource] $ewhat they don't want you to know about shock treatment /$fLinda Andre 210 $aNew Brunswick, N.J. $cRutgers University Press$dc2009 215 $a1 online resource (376 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8135-4441-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 316-348) and index. 327 $aThe trouble with time -- Eugenic conceptions I : ticking time bombs -- Eugenic conceptions II : useless eaters -- A little brain pathology -- Informed consent and the dawn of the public relations era -- The American Psychiatric Association Task Force -- The making of an American activist -- The ECT industry cows the media -- Long strange trip : ECT and the food and drug administration -- The Committee for Truth in Psychiatry -- Anecdote or evidence? -- Shaming science -- The lie that won't die -- Erasing history -- The triumph of public relations over science -- Should shock be banned? : the moral context -- Where do we go from here? 330 $aMechanisms 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, and the stories of others, Andre exposes tactics used by the industry to promote ECT as a responsible treatment when all the scientific evidence suggested otherwise. As early as the 1940's, scientific literature began reporting incidences of human and animal brain damage resulting from ECT. Despite practitioner modifications, deleterious effects on memory and cognition persisted. Rather than discontinue use of ECT, the$5-billion-per-year shock industry crafted a public relations campaign to improve ECT's image. During the 1970's and 1980's, psychiatry's PR efforts misled the government, the public, and the media into believing that ECT had made a comeback and was safe. Andre carefully intertwines stories of ECT survivors and activists with legal, ethical, and scientific arguments to address issues of patient rights and psychiatric treatment. Echoing current debates about the use of psychopharmaceutical interventions shown to have debilitating side-effects, she candidly presents ECT as a problematic therapy demanding greater scrutiny, tighter control, and full disclosure about its long-term cognitive effects. 606 $aShock therapy 606 $aElectroconvulsive therapy 610 $amedical, health, mental health, doctor, deception, medicine, patient, electroconvulsive therapy, ect, depression, public relations, medical trials, treatment, controversy, electroshock therapy, shock treatment, mental disorder, psychiatric, seizure, mania, catatonia, high risk, medical data, court records, FDA, food and drug administration, industry claims, scientific literature, brain damage, animal brain damage, memory, cognition, shock industry, ect survivor, legal, ethical, patient rights, therapy. 615 0$aShock therapy. 615 0$aElectroconvulsive therapy. 676 $a616.89/12 700 $aAndre$b Linda$f1959-$01672050 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910818435103321 996 $aDoctors of deception$94035069 997 $aUNINA