The placebo effect : an interdisciplinary exploration /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Harrington, Anne, 1960-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1999.
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Table of Contents:
  • The placebo: Is it much ado about nothing?
  • Clinical reflections on the placebo phenomenon
  • The nocebo phenomenon: scope and foundations
  • The doctor as therapeutic agent: a placebo effect research agenda
  • 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 pharmacotherapy
  • Specifying nonspecitics: psychological mechanisms of placebo effects
  • Placebo, pain, and belief: a biocultural model
  • Placebo: conversations at the disciplinary borders.