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 Tagged as ‘Sound Ethics’
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 [...]
