The Placebo effect : an interdisciplinary exploration /

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:	Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1997.
Description:	x, 260 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	Placebo (Medicine) -- Congresses. Placebo Effect -- Congresses. Drug Therapy -- congresses. Philosophy, Medical -- Congresses. Placebos (Medicine) Conference papers and proceedings.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2748797

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Other authors / contributors:	Harrington, Anne, 1960-
ISBN:	0674669843 (cloth : alk. paper)
Notes:	"...based on materials that were first presented at a three-day conference entitled 'Placebo: probing the self-healing brain' held at Harvard University, December 7-10, 1994"--P. vii. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Table of Contents:

Introduction
The Placebo: Is It Much ado about Nothing?
Clinical Reflections on The Placebo Phenomenon Howard Spiro The Nocebo Phenomenon: Scope and Foundations
The Doctor as Therapeutic agent: A Placebo Effect
Research Agenda Howard Brody Toward a Neurobiology of Placebo analgesia
The Contribution of Desire and Expectation to Placebo analgesia: Implications for New Research Strategies
The Role of Conditioning in Pharmaco
Therapy Robert Ader Specifying Nonspecifics: Psychological Mechanisms of Placebo Effects Irving Kirsch Placebo, Pain, and Belief
A Biocultural Model
Conversations at The Disciplinary Borders Edited
Contributors
Index

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