The placebo effect : an interdisciplinary exploration
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The placebo effect : an interdisciplinary exploration
Harvard University Press, 1997
- : hbk
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
The placebo sometimes produces "real" results. This book argues that the placebo effect is a real entity in its own right, and has much to tell us about how symbols, settings, and human relationships literally get under our skin.
Table of Contents
- The placebo effect - is it much ado about nothing?, Arthur K. Shapiro and Elaine Shapiro
- clinical reflections on the placebo phenomenon, Howard Spiro
- the nocebo phenomenon - scope and foundations, Robert A. Hahn
- the doctor as therapeutic agent - a placebo effect research agenda, Howard Brody
- toward a neurobiology of placebo analgesia, Howard L. Fields and Donald D. Price
- the contribution of desire and expectation to placebo analgesia - implications for new research strategies, Donald D. Price and Howard L. Fields
- the role of conditioning in pharmacotherapy, Robert Ader
- specifying nonspecifics - psychological mechanisms of placebo effects, Irving Kirsch
- placebo, pain, and belief - a biocultural model, David B. Morris
- placebo - conversations at the disciplinary borders.
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