Publisher:Toronto : Alfred A. Knopf Canada, c2007.
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Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [562]-629) and index.
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Pt. 1. Two doctor shocks : research and development -- 1. The torture lab : Ewen Cameron, the CIA and the maniacal quest to erase and remake the human mind -- 2. The other doctor shock : Milton Friedman and the search for a Laissez-Faire laboratory -- Pt. 2. The first test : birth pangs -- 3. States of shock : the bloody birth of the counter-revolution -- 4. Cleaning the slate : terror does its work -- 5. "Entirely unrelated" : how an ideology was cleansed of its crimes -- Pt. 3. Surviving democracy : bombs made of laws -- 6. Saved by a war : Thatcherism and its useful enemies -- 7. The new doctor shock : economic warfare replaces dictatorship -- 8. Crisis works : the packaging of shock therapy -- Pt. 4. Lost in transition : while we wept, while we trembled, while we danced -- 9. Slamming the door on history : a crisis in Poland, a massacre in China -- 10. Democracy born in chains : South Africa's constricted freedom -- 11. Bonfire of a young democracy : Russia chooses "the Pinochet option" -- 12. The capitalist Id : Russia and the new era of the boor market -- 13. Let it burn : the looting of Asia and "the fall of a second Berlin Wall" -- Pt. 5. Shocking times : the rise of the disaster capitalism complex -- 14. Shock therapy in the U.S.A. : the homeland security bubble -- 15. A corporatist state : removing the revolving door, putting in an archway -- Pt. 6. Iraq, full circle : overshock -- 16. Erasing Iraq : in search of a "model" for the Middle East -- 17. Ideological blowback : a very capitalist disaster -- 18. Full circle : from blank slate to scorched earth -- Pt. 7. The movable green zone : buffer zones and blast walls -- 19. Blanking the beach : "the second tsunami" -- 20. Disaster apartheid : a world of green zones and red zones -- 21. Losing the peace incentive : Israel as warning -- Conclusion : shock wears off : the rise of people's reconstruction.
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