| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 275 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Chapter 1. Introdcution: placebos in modern society -- Chapter 2. Antidepressants and the placebo effect -- Chapter 3. Active expectations: insights on the prescription of sub-therapeutic doses of antidepressants for depression -- Chapter 4. Justifying deceptive placebos -- Chapter 5. Trust and the placebo effect -- Chapter 6. Placebo science in medical education -- Chapter 7. Looking at placebos through a cultural lens and finding meaning -- Chapter 8. Unpacking the placebo response: insights from ethnographic studies of healing -- Chapter 9. Pills in a pretty box: social sources of the placebo effect -- Chapter 10. Healing words: the placebo effect and journalism at the mind-body boundary -- Chapter 11. Placebolicious: the many flavors of placebos in Western diets and food cultures -- Chapter 12. Suggestion, placebos, and false memories -- Chapter 13. Fetish as placebo: the social history of a sexual idea -- Chapter 14. "Take two and vote in the morning": reflections on the political placebo effect -- Chapter 15. Placebos as social constructs to elucidate human behavior |
| Summary |
This volume provides various perspectives on how psychosocial parameters - such as interpersonal rapport, historical and contemporary context, corporate memory, expectation, empathy, hope, conditioning, symbolic thinking and suggestion - play a role in forming placebo responses and placebo effects |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Placebos (Medicine) -- Social aspects
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Placebos (Medicine) -- Psychological aspects
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Medicine and psychology.
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Placebos (Medicine)
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Placebo Effect
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Placebos
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MEDICAL -- Pharmacology.
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Placebos (Medicine)
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Medicine and psychology
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Placebos (Medicine) -- Psychological aspects
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Raz, Amir, editor
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Harris, Cory S., editor
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| ISBN |
9780191502019 |
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0191502014 |
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9780191760679 |
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0191760676 |
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