The placebo response and the power of unconscious healing
By: by Richard Kradin.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 278
ISBN-13: 9780415956185
Subjects: Placebos (Medicine); Mental Healing; Placebo Effect; Central Nervous System -- physiology; Mind-Body Relations (Metaphysics)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The placebo response: mind over matter or a matter of perspective?; title: The basis of the placebo response in sickness and healing; title: A brief history of medicine and the changing implications of placebos; title: Placebo effects: who gets them?; title: What do we know about how placebos act?; title: The anomalous placebo response; title: Placebo and the truth; title: The challenge of harnessing the placebo response.