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Clinical ethics
Electroconvulsive therapy: the importance of informed consent and ‘placebo literacy’
- Correspondence to Dr Charlotte Rosalind Blease, School of Politics, International Studies and Philosophy, Queen's University Belfast, 25 University Square, Belfast BT7 1PB, Northern Ireland, UK; cblease02{at}qub.ac.uk
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Electroconvulsive therapy: the importance of informed consent and ‘placebo literacy’
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- Received November 15, 2012
- Accepted November 27, 2012
- First published December 19, 2012.
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April 27, 2016
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