Kathryn T. Hall

Placebos

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"How the underlying biology of the "placebo effect" works and how could this change the way we think about modern and future medicine"--

Produktdetails

• The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series
• Verlag: MIT Press Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Oktober 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 175mm x 127mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 202g
• ISBN-13: 9780262544252
• ISBN-10: 0262544253
• Artikelnr.: 63598900

Autorenporträt

Kathryn T. Hall is Deputy Executive Director of Boston Public Health Commission and Assistant Professor (part-time) in Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Associate Molecular Biologist in the Division of Preventive Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital.  

Inhaltsangabe

Series Foreword vii
Introduction: The Black Door 1
1 Placebos: A Brief History 15
2 How Expectations and Conditioning Shape Placebo Effects 47
3 The Brain on Placebos 67
4 Nocebo Effects in Modern Medicine 89
5 Placebos in Clinical Trials 107
6 The Placebo Effect in Surgery 127
7 Who Responds? 137
8 Placebo Redux 155
Acknowledgments 167
Glossary 169
Notes 173
Further Reading 193
Index 195