Electroconvulsive therapy: the importance of informed consent and ‘placebo literacy’

I thank Julie Hersh for her thoughtful and valuable comments on the use of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT).1 Discussions with those who have experience of treatments (such as ECT) is of the utmost importance when debating issues such as informed consent. I am therefore very pleased to be given this...

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Main Author: Blease, Charlotte (Author)
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Published: BMJ Publ. 2013
In: Journal of medical ethics
Year: 2013, Volume: 39, Issue: 3, Pages: 173-174
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