RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) from the patient's perspective
JF Journal of Medical Ethics
JO J Med Ethics
FD BMJ Publishing Group Ltd and Institute of Medical Ethics
SP 171
OP 172
DO 10.1136/medethics-2012-101195
VO 39
IS 3
A1 Hersh, Julie K
YR 2013
UL http://jme.bmj.com/content/39/3/171.abstract
AB This is a response to Dr Charlotte Rosalind Blease's paper ‘Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT), the Placebo Effect and Informed Consent’, written by Julie K. Hersh who has had ECT. Hersh argues that placebo effect is impossible to prove without endangering the lives of participants in the study. In addition, informing potential ECT patients of unproven placebo effect could discourage patients from using a procedure that from experience has proven highly effective.