A Cultural History of Electric Shock Therapy in America, Updated Paperback Edition
by
Timothy W Kneeland, Carol A.B. Warren
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2016
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 enthusiastic reception in 1940, to a period of crisis in the...