Word: shock
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...history of mental illness. Would the result have been different if Eagleton had been "tried by a jury of his peers" -the scores of thousands of Americans who not only can sympathize but empathize with him because they too have suffered depression that required hospitalization and perhaps electric-shock therapy? The answer, as ironic as it is surprising, is apparently...
...Shock Therapy. One exceptional view came from a San Francisco traffic manager, 26, now job hunting, who attempted suicide last year before entering Napa State Hospital and receiving shock therapy. He says: "What happened to Eagleton was a shame. He has proved himself on many jobs since he was in the hospital. He was doing an excellent job in the Senate for his home state. If Missouri didn't object to him, why should the rest of the country...
More common is the attitude of a retired schoolteacher in Fitchburg, Mass., aged 65 and a veteran of 50 shock treatments. "I've never been shy about talking about my problem," she says, "and I won't be now. People have a lot of sympathy for Eagleton, but I think they also understand he was a liability to the ticket because of the debate about his past health...
There was general agreement about Eagleton last week among depression patients gathered in the Manhattan office of Psychiatrist Leonard Cammer for electrical treatment. Author of the helpful volume Up From Depression (Simon & Schuster and Pocket Books), Cammer objects to the terms "shock" and "electroconvulsive therapy." He prefers "electric-stimulation treatment." He offers his patients heavy doses of reassurance, and advises them not to hide their problems and treatment from friends and associates...
...study's findings on the effects of untreated syphilis have been reported periodically in medical journals for years. Last week's shock came when an alert A.P. correspondent noticed and reported that the lack of treatment was intentional. Senator William Proxmire of Wisconsin, a member of the subcommittee that oversees PHS's budgets, called the study "a moral and ethical nightmare." Dr. Merlin K. DuVal Jr., Assistant Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare for Health and Scientific Affairs, expressed dismay and launched an investigation...