The Nocebo Effect [electronic resource] : Overdiagnosis and Its Costs /
Justman, Stewart.author.
The Nocebo Effect documents the transformation of normal problems into medical ones and brings out the risks of this inflationary practice. One notable risk is that people labeled as sick may find themselves living up to their label through the alchemy of the nocebo effect.
""Cover""; ""Title""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments                      ""; ""Preamble: Indefinite Ailments and Inflammatory Messages                                                              ""; ""1. DSM and the Shaping of Depression""; ""Chapter and Verse""; ""A Diagnostic Catch-All""; ""Expanded Eligibility""; ""Skewed Calculations""; ""Noxious Diagnoses""; ""Cued Expectations""; ""Interpretation and Misinterpretation""; ""Medicine and the Humanities""; ""Cases and Sources""; ""2. The Ills of Health""; ""The Symptom Pool""; ""Medicalization""; ""The Balance Scale""
""The Value of Normality""""Magnification of Symptoms""; ""Laboratory and Marketplace""; ""Open-Ended Possibilities""; ""Proof of Principle""; ""3. Searching for Signs""; ""Red Flags""; ""Guided Self-Examination""; ""Amplification and the Marketplace""; ""Anxiogenic Ads""; ""Cued Sensations""; ""Interlude: Medicalization and Magnetism                                              ""; ""4. Overdiagnosis and Its Harms""; ""Placebo/Nocebo""; ""Depression""; ""Prostate Cancer""; ""ADHD: Adults""; ""ADHD: Children""; ""Erectile Dysfunction""; ""Adjustment Disorder""; ""5. Name Games""
""The Mystique of Specificity""""Aspirin and Headache""; ""Branding and Cancer Awareness""; ""Labels and Expectations""; ""An Iatrogenic Label""; ""The Power of Names""; ""The Power of Proper Names: A Special Case""; ""Stencil Work""; ""6. Beware What You Look For: Two Cases of Medical Activism""; ""Strangers and Doubles""; ""Blurry Targets""; ""Imperceptible Danger""; ""Searching and Finding""; ""Wide Nets, Rough Measures""; ""Early Detection""; ""Awareness""; ""Emotive Advertising""; ""Activism and Evidence""; ""Signs of Hope""
""7. The Folly of Systems: The Satiric Tradition and Mental Disorders""""Nature and Boxes""; ""Artificial Lines""; ""?Proteus Himself Is Not So Diverse?""; ""Method and System""; ""Mockery of Medicine""; ""Amorphous Distress""; ""A Hero in Distress""; ""Biomedical Entities vs. Sociocultural Expressions""; ""8. The Malady of Awareness""; ""The Socially Anxious Underground Man""; ""Awareness, Happiness, Misery""; ""Health vs. Health-Consciousness""; ""Assertiveness and Advocacy""; ""Epilogue: Return to Sources                                  ""; ""Gadamer on Medicine""; ""A Hero Asleep""
""Medicine and Story""""Notes            ""; ""Index            ""
Includes index.
The Nocebo Effect documents the transformation of normal problems into medical ones and brings out the risks of this inflationary practice. One notable risk is that people labeled as sick may find themselves living up to their label through the alchemy of the nocebo effect.
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