Placebo Effect - An Interdisciplinary Exploration

Informationen zum Autor Anne Harrington is Franklin L. Ford Professor of the History of Science at Harvard University. Klappentext A mere "symbol" of medicine--the sugar pill, saline injection, doctor in a white lab coat--the placebo nonetheless sometimes produces "real" results. Medical science has largely managed its discomfort with this phenomenon by discounting the placebo effect, subtracting it as an impurity in its data through double-blind tests of new treatments and drugs. This book is committed to a different perspective--namely, that the placebo effect is a "real" entity in its own right, one that has much to teach us about how symbols, settings, and human relationships literally get under our skin. Zusammenfassung A mere “symbol” of medicine the placebo nonetheless sometimes produces “real” results. Medical science has largely discounted the placebo effect, but Harrington argues that the phenomenon is a “real” entity in its own right, one that has much to teach us about how symbols, settings, and human relationships literally get under our skin. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction The Placebo: 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 Edited by Anne Harrington Contributors Index

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: A. Harrington, Anne Harrington
• Con la collaborazione di: Anne Harrington (Editore)
• Editore: Harvard University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 15.03.1999
• EAN: 9780674669864
• ISBN: 978-0-674-66986-4
• Pagine: 272
• Serie: Mind/Brain/Behavior Initiative; Mind/Brain/Behavior Initiative; Mind/Brain/Behavior Initiative (HUP)
• Categorie: Guide e manuali > Salute; Scienze naturali, medicina, informatica, tecnica > Medicina > Farmacia; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Psicologia > Psicologia teorica; Medicine: general issues, MEDICAL / Alternative & Complementary Medicine, PSYCHOLOGY / Cognitive Psychology & Cognition, Cognition & cognitive psychology, complementary medicine, Cognition and cognitive psychology, Complementary and alternative medicine and therapies