The Placebo Effect
Subtitle: An Interdisciplinary Exploration (Mind/Brain/Behavior Initiative)
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: August 1, 1997
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780674669840
Subjects: Cognition & cognitive psychology; Complementary Medicine; Medicine: General Issues; Placebo Effect; Psychosomatic Medicine; Medical; Psychology; Psychiatry - General; Neuropsychology; Pharmacology; Medical / Laboratory Medicine; Congresses; Drug Therapy; Placebo (Medicine)
First sentence: In the clinic, it has been long acknowledged that "sham" treatments like sugar pills or injections with saline solution have the capacity to rally healing processes, sometimes of a dramatic nature, within patients.