Doctors of deception : what they don't want you to know about shock treatment / Linda Andre.

New Brunswick, N.J. ; London : Rutgers University Press, [2009], ©2009.

xi, 359 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

The 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?

Includes bibliographical references (p. 316-348) and index.