TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2006//
TI  - Electroshock as a form of violence against women
JO  - Violence against women
A1  - Burstow, Bonnie
SP  - 372
EP  - 392
VL  - 12
IS  - 4
N2  - This article reframes electroconvulsive therapy as a form of violence against women. Drawing on women's testimony and on scientific research, it establishes that this "treatment," which is overwhelmingly given to women, results in extensive cognitive and physical impairment. Correspondingly, it functions and is experienced as a form of assault and social control, not unlike wife battery. Emergent themes include electroshock as life destroying, a sign of contempt for women, punishment, a means of enforcing sex roles, a way to silence women about other abuse, an assault, traumatizing for those who undergo it and those forced to witness it.
LA  - 
SN  - 1077-8012
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1077801206286404
ID  - ref1
ER  -