Sadowsky Electroconvulsive Therapy in America

The Anatomy of a Medical Controversy
Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-1-315-52283-8
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 182 Seiten

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Cultural History

While most previous histories of ECT have been highly polemical, taking clear sides in the controversy, this book instead seeks to provide an explanation of why ECT has been so controversial. Contextualizing the controversies about ECT, instead of simply engaging in them, makes the history of ECT more richly revealing of wider changes in culture and medicine. It shows that the application of electricity to the brain to treat illness is not only a physiological event, but also one embedded in culturally patterned beliefs about the human body, the meaning of sickness, and medical authority.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sadowsky, Jonathan

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

1. Origins

2. Trying to Make Progress

3. ECT as Therapy and Social Control in an Age of Anxiety

4. Mind and Body I: ECT and Psychoanalysis

5. The Anti-Authoritarian Personality: ECT and Psychiatry’s Critics

6. Mind and Body II: From the "Me Decade" to the "Decade of the Brain"

7. The History of a Side Effect: ECT and Memory Loss

Conclusion: Rethinking Progress and Social Control

Über Autor(innen)

Jonathan Sadowsky is Associate Professor in the Department of History at Case Western Reserve University.