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Jonathan Sadowsky Ph.D.
Thursday, October 18th, 6:00 p.m.
Jonathan Sadowsky Ph.D.
"The History of a Side Effect:
Electroconvulsive Therapy and Memory Loss, 1940-The Present."
from 6:00 to 7:00 pm in the Herrick Room, Allen Memorial Medical Library
Please RSVP via phone by October 15, 216-368-3648 or email: jennifer.nieves@case.edu
Professor Sadowsky is the Dr. Theodore J. Castele Professor of Medical History & Chair of the History Department. His research interests focus upon the history of psychiatry, and for this presentation he concentrates upon a topic related to his forthcoming book on electroconvulsive therapy. Prof. Sadowsky writes, “Ever since the invention of convulsive therapy for mental illness in the 1930s, patients and clinicians have noticed that it held some risk of memory loss. The extent and permanence of the losses have been the subject of great controversy, however. This presentation will juxtapose two kinds of evidence about this side effect--clinical scientific studies, and subjective patient accounts. It will argue that different, and changing, understandings of what constitutes a clinical fact account for the controversy over memory loss--and in turn help to explain why electroconvulsive therapy itself has been so controversial."
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