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Placebo talks : modern perspectives on placebos in society /

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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Raz, Amir (Editor ), Harris, Cory S. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford, United Kingdom ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2016.
Edición:First edition.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.