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The placebo effect : an interdisciplinary exploration / editor, Anne Harrington.

Contributor(s): Harrington, Anne, 1960-Material type: TextTextPublication details: Cambridge, Mass. ; London : Harvard University Press, c1997. ISBN: 0674669843Subject(s): Placebo (Medicine) -- Congresses | Placebo Effect -- congresses | Chemotherapy -- congresses | Medicine -- Philosophy -- congressesDDC classification: 615.5 LOC classification: RM331
Contents:
Introduction / Anne Harrington -- 1. The Placebo: Is It Much Ado about Nothing? / Arthur K. Shapiro and Elaine Shapiro -- 2. Clinical Reflections on the Placebo Phenomenon / Howard Spiro -- 3. The Nocebo Phenomenon: Scope and Foundations / Robert A. Hahn -- 4. The Doctor as Therapeutic Agent: A Placebo Effect Research Agenda / Howard Brody -- 5. Toward a Neurobiology of Placebo Analgesia / Howard L. Fields and Donald D. Price -- 6. The Contribution of Desire and Expectation to Placebo Analgesia: Implications for New Research Strategies / Donald D. Price and Howard L. Fields -- 7. The Role of Conditioning in Pharmacotheraphy / Robert Ader -- 8. Specifying Nonspecifics: Psychological Mechanisms of Placebo Effects / Irving Kirsch -- 9. Placebo, Pain, and Belief: A Biocultural Model / David B. Morris -- Placebo: Conversations at the Disciplinary Borders / Anne Harrington.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

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.

Includes index.

Introduction / Anne Harrington -- 1. The Placebo: Is It Much Ado about Nothing? / Arthur K. Shapiro and Elaine Shapiro -- 2. Clinical Reflections on the Placebo Phenomenon / Howard Spiro -- 3. The Nocebo Phenomenon: Scope and Foundations / Robert A. Hahn -- 4. The Doctor as Therapeutic Agent: A Placebo Effect Research Agenda / Howard Brody -- 5. Toward a Neurobiology of Placebo Analgesia / Howard L. Fields and Donald D. Price -- 6. The Contribution of Desire and Expectation to Placebo Analgesia: Implications for New Research Strategies / Donald D. Price and Howard L. Fields -- 7. The Role of Conditioning in Pharmacotheraphy / Robert Ader -- 8. Specifying Nonspecifics: Psychological Mechanisms of Placebo Effects / Irving Kirsch -- 9. Placebo, Pain, and Belief: A Biocultural Model / David B. Morris -- Placebo: Conversations at the Disciplinary Borders / Anne Harrington.

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