Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on House Administration
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Election law
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Important Statutory and Regulatory Information and Accompanying Forms Relating to the Election of Candidates to the U.S. House of Representatives
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on House Administration
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Election law
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Election law
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
West's Florida Statutes Annotated
Author: Florida
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1102
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1102
Book Description
Nomination and Election of the President and Vice President of the United States
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political conventions
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political conventions
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
Hearings, Reports and Prints of the House Committee on House Administration
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on House Administration
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Election law
Languages : en
Pages : 654
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Election law
Languages : en
Pages : 654
Book Description
Nomination and Election of the President and Vice President of the United States, Including the Manner of Selecting Delegates to National Political Conventions
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Election law
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Election law
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
Nomination and Election of the President and Vice-president of the United States
Author: Estados Unidos. Congress
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Election law
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Election law
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
Official Florida Statutes
Author: Florida
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 2240
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 2240
Book Description
Florida Public Documents
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : State government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : State government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series
Author: Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher: Copyright Office, Library of Congress
ISBN:
Category : Copyright
Languages : en
Pages : 1610
Book Description
Publisher: Copyright Office, Library of Congress
ISBN:
Category : Copyright
Languages : en
Pages : 1610
Book Description
Doctors of Deception
Author: Linda Andre
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 0813546524
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 377
Book Description
Mechanisms 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 1940s, 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 1970s and 1980s, 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.
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 0813546524
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 377
Book Description
Mechanisms 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 1940s, 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 1970s and 1980s, 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.