| Author | : Fabrizio Benedetti |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 295 |
| Release | : 2009 |
| Genre | : Placebo (Medicine) |
| ISBN | : 9780191724022 |
This is the first book to critically review the mechanisms of placebo effects across all medical conditions, diseases and therapies. It is the definitive text on the placebo effect, and will be essential for researchers and clinicians in all medical specialties.
| Author | : Walter A. Brown |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 188 |
| Release | : 2013-01-17 |
| Genre | : Health & Fitness |
| ISBN | : 0199933855 |
The Placebo Effect in Clinical Practice brings together what we know about the mechanisms behind the placebo response, as well as the procedures that promote these responses, in order to provide a focused and concise overview on how current knowledge can be applied in treatment settings.
| Author | : Anne Harrington |
| Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
| Total Pages | : 276 |
| Release | : 1999 |
| Genre | : Chemotherapy |
| ISBN | : 9780674669864 |
Beginning with a review of the role of placebos in the history of medicine, this book investigates the current surge of interest in placebos, and probes the methodological difficulties of saying scientifically just what placebos can and cannot do.
| Author | : David A. Jopling |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
| Total Pages | : 333 |
| Release | : 2008-05-29 |
| Genre | : Medical |
| ISBN | : 0199239509 |
Psychodynamic psychotherapy and psychoanalysis have had to defend themselves from a barrage of criticisms throughout their history. In this book David Jopling argues that the changes achieved through therapy are really just functions of placebos that rally the mind's native healing powers. It is a bold new work that delivers yet another blow to Freud and his followers.
| Author | : Fabrizio Benedetti |
| Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
| Total Pages | : 352 |
| Release | : 2014-09-18 |
| Genre | : Medical |
| ISBN | : 0191015172 |
One of the most widespread words in medicine is placebo and placebo effect, although it is not always clear what it means exactly. Recent progress in biomedical research has allowed a better clarification of the placebo effect. We know that this is an active psychobiological phenomenon which takes place in the patient's brain and that is capable of influencing both the course of a disease and the response to a therapy. Since publication of the first edition of this book in 2008, there has been an explosion of placebo research, and this new edition brings the topic fully up to date. Throughout, the book emphasizes that there are many placebo effects and critically reviews them in different medical conditions, such as neurological and psychiatric disorders, cardiovascular and respiratory diseases, immune and hormonal responses, as well as oncology, surgery, sports medicine and acupuncture. The psychosocial context around the patient is crucial to the placebo effect, for example the doctor's words and attitudes, and throughout this is considered. Exhaustive in its coverage, and written by a world authority in the field, this is the definitive reference text to the placebo effect - one that is essential for researchers and clinicians across a wide range of medical specialities.
| Author | : David Rotenberg |
| Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
| Total Pages | : 352 |
| Release | : 2012-02-07 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1439172641 |
The first book in a new series starring an acting teacher with a surprising talent. Decker Roberts has the dangerous gift of detecting the truth. For years this talent proved to be a lucrative side line to his acting teaching. Only his closest friends know, and he keeps his identity secret from the companies that pay him to tell them if the people they are planning to hire are truthful. But Decker’s carefully compartmentalized life starts to fall apart. He realized that he must have heard something in one of his “truth telling” sessions that someone didn’t want him to know. Decker has to go on the run and figure out why he’s been targeted. There’s also a government agent hunting him who seems to know absolutely everything about Decker Roberts’ identities—real and false—and other people of “his kind.”
| Author | : David Peters |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 235 |
| Release | : 2001 |
| Genre | : Medical |
| ISBN | : 9780443060311 |
As the placebo effect continues to elicit passionate debate, this book tackles issues of the placebo effect in complementary medicine, and is targeted to both the experienced practitioner and the new student.
| Author | : Arthur K. Shapiro |
| Publisher | : JHU Press |
| Total Pages | : 443 |
| Release | : 2000-10-17 |
| Genre | : Psychology |
| ISBN | : 1421401347 |
Ranging from antiquity to modern times, this history of the placebo effect is especially timely in light of renewed interest in the mind-body relationship. Until this century, most medications prescribed by physicians were pharmacologically inert, if not harmful. That is, physicians were prescribing placebos or worse without knowing it. In a sense, then, the history of medical treatment until relatively recently is the history of the placebo effect. Based on the authors' lifelong study and clinical research, this is a comprehensive and scholarly examination of the placebo effect. The authors begin by surveying the use of placebos from antiquity to modern times. They also examine the development, use, and validity of the double-blind, controlled clinical trial. And they present their own study of the placebo effect in more than 1000 patients. Demonstrating both the magnitude and the limitations of the placebo effect, the book helps to clarify knotty issues ranging from the evaluation of therapies to the ethics of conducting controlled studies in which patients are deliberately given placebos. With the renewed interest in the mind-body relationship as well as in the role of placebos in new and alternative medical procedures and therapies, the findings of this book are especially timely.
