books.google.com - This volume uncovers the roots of electroshock in America, an outgrowth of western patriarchal medicine with primarily female patients. The history of electroshock in the United States in three historic stages is chronicled as it alternated from an enthusiastic reception in 1940, to a period of crisis...http://books.google.com/books/about/Pushbutton_psychiatry.html?id=S8Vv4XgfHNYC&utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePushbutton psychiatry