A Material History of Electroshock Therapy
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- 作者：Lara Rzesnitzek ; Sascha Lang
- 关键词：History of psychiatry ; history of electroconvulsive therapy ; shock therapies ; convulsive therapy ; National Socialism
- 刊名：NTM Zeitschrift f¨¹r Geschichte der Wissenschaften, Technik und Medizin
- 出版年：2016
- 出版时间：September 2016
- 年：2016
- 卷：24
- 期：3
- 页码：251-277
- 全文大小：1,539 KB
- 刊物类别：Mathematics and Statistics
- 刊物主题：Mathematics
History of Mathematics
History of Science
Medicine/Public Health, general
Mathematics
Physics
Engineering, general - 出版者：Birkh盲user Basel
- ISSN：1420-9144
- 卷排序：24
文摘
The article considers the history of electroshock therapy as a history of medical technology, professional cooperation and business competition. A variation of a history from below is intended; though not from the patients’ perspective (Porter, Theory Soc 14:175–198, 1985), but with a focus on electrodes, circuitry and patents. Such a ‘material history’ of electroshock therapy reveals that the technical make-up of electroshock devices and what they were used for was relative to the changing interests of physicians, industrial companies and mental health politics; it makes an intriguing case for the Social Construction of Technology theory (Bijker et al., The social construction of technological systems: new directions in the sociology and history of technology. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1987).