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Doctors of Deception
This book describes the history of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), better known as shock treatment. Doctors promote these treatments as safe; these doctors also receive a great profit from these treatments. Further, this book reveals that these treatments are not safe according to science and evidence from firsthand accounts of patients. ECT can have permanent negative effects on memory and cognition actions.
Tags: doctors; medical; health; science; patients; controversial; procedure; public; shock industry
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Talking Hands
Talking Hands introduces a little-known branch of cognitive science: the linguistic, psychological and neurological study of sign language. "In recent years, research in these areas has been vital in shedding new light on the ways in which all language works in the human mind." In the book, a group of linguists study and analyze the "signing village" of Al-Sayyid, a remote Bedouin community in Israel that, because of isolation and intermarriage, has a rate of deafness 40 times that of the general population.
Tags: science; language; hands; sign language; deaf; cognitive; learning; speaking; linguists; signing village of Al-Sayyid;
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Living on Earth aired a two-part series, "Endocrine Disruptors," detailing the growing body of scientific evidence associating thousands of commonly used chemicals and the diminished reproductive and cognitive abilities of animal populations, July 8 and 15, 1994.
Tags: MA Gellerman Thomson Curwood Endocrine disruptors Toxic substances Transcript 28 pages