The electroshock triangle: disputes about the ECT apparatus prototype and its display in the 1960s
| Autor: | Alessandro Aruta, Elisabetta Sirgiovanni |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Psychotherapist
medicine.medical_treatment electroshock 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Electroconvulsive therapy Menninger Lucio Bini medicine Humans 0601 history and archaeology Electroconvulsive Therapy Museums 06 humanities and the arts Equipment Design History 20th Century medical museum Dissent and Disputes United States 030227 psychiatry Psychiatry and Mental health 060105 history of science technology & medicine Italy Spite ECT apparatus prototype Psychology Foundations |
| Popis: | In the early 1960s, a climate of public condemnation of electroconvulsive therapy was emerging in the USA and Europe. In spite of this, the electroshock apparatus prototype, introduced in Rome in 1938, was becoming hotly contended. This article explores the disputes around the display of the electroshock apparatus prototype in the summer of 1964 and sheds new light on the triangle of personalities that shaped its future: Karl and William Menninger, two key figures of American psychiatry in Topeka; their competitor, Adalberto Pazzini, the founder of the Sapienza Museum of the History of Medicine in Rome; and, between them, Lucio Bini, one of the original inventors of ECT, who died unexpectedly that summer. |
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