Although electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is currently used successfully in a clinical setting, the therapy has a controversial past. In addition to the many negative portrayals of the ECT in film and fiction, including Ken Kesey’s novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, public perception may have been influenced the questionable experimental use of the therapy [...]
Entries from May 2008
May 27, 2008
Lecture: Torture and Medical Professionals
Join Us tomorrow (May 28th) at the Fairbanks Ethics Lecture. IUCB’s Meg Gaffney, M.D., will be presenting: “Strange Bedfellows: Torture and Medical Professionals”. The lecture, sponsored by the Charles Warren Fairbanks Center for Medical Ethics, will begin at 11:30 AM in the Methodist Hospital Petticrew Auditorium. Dr. Gaffney will outline the history of [...]
May 7, 2008
Sound Ethics – Essential Medicines, Part 2
May’s episode of Sound Ethics continues the investigation of what is being done to improve access to essential medicines. Eric Meslin, Ph.D., discusses with Carrie Rouse, a second year student at the Indiana University School of Medicine, the role universities can play in building better access to these medicines. Rouse, a member of the Indiana [...]
