Wednesday 7 April 2010

Wikipedia

My search was for ECT or Electro-convulsive therapy, and I was pleasantly surprised at the range of cross-references listed for the acronym. ECT has been a controversial therapy, and yet the discussion of the edits was always about how to be more exact with detail - the level of current used, for instance, and the removal of fictional portrayal in films where the treatment was something else. The references are invaluable, and because their range is often idiosycratic they point in directions more traditional encyclopedias don't cover. I was fascinated to learn, for instance, that Chinese children had been given ECT to break addiction to online gaming.

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