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Book Placebo Effects  The Meaning of Care in Medicine

Download or read book Placebo Effects The Meaning of Care in Medicine written by Pekka Louhiala and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-03-24 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a perspective on the concepts placebo and placebo effects, which has been missing so far: a detailed analysis of the history of the terms, their current use, suggested alternatives and the implications of the conceptual confusion. Everybody knows something about placebos and placebo effects. If, however, people are asked to define the concepts, the spectrum becomes wide. Does 'placebo' refer to an inert treatment or does it cover all elements of the patient-physician-interaction except for pharmacological or other physiological mechanisms? Furthermore, if, by definition, a placebo has no effect, what sense does it make to talk about a 'placebo effect'? Even in scientific literature the concepts ‘placebo’ and ‘placebo effect’ are used in many senses and often in a confusing way. While this book discusses many issues which keep puzzling physicians, it also covers the historical developments of the concepts of placebo and placebo effect as well as the conceptual confusion in the definitions. This book is intended for physicians, philosophers, psychologists and any other people interested in placebos, placebo effects and the physician-patient relationship.

Book Meaning  Medicine  and the  placebo Effect

Download or read book Meaning Medicine and the placebo Effect written by Daniel E. Moerman and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Placebo Effect in Clinical Practice

Download or read book The Placebo Effect in Clinical Practice written by Walter A. Brown and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-01-17 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book Talking Cures and Placebo Effects

Download or read book Talking Cures and Placebo Effects written by David A. Jopling and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2008-05-29 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book The Powerful Placebo

    Book Details:
  • Author : Arthur K. Shapiro
  • Publisher : JHU Press
  • Release : 2000-10-17
  • ISBN : 9780801866753
  • Pages : 304 pages

Download or read book The Powerful Placebo written by Arthur K. Shapiro and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2000-10-17 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Powerful Placebo" discusses the placebo effect over the centuries, reminding the reader how complex the issue is, from the very definition of a placebo and the success of dubious or fraudulent remedies to the modern worship of placebos as controls in clinical trials. The authors assert that "until recently, the history of medical treatment was essentially the history of placebo effect".

Book Placebo Effects

Download or read book Placebo Effects written by Fabrizio Benedetti and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book The Placebo Effect

    Book Details:
  • Author : Anne Harrington
  • Publisher : Harvard University Press
  • Release : 1999
  • ISBN : 9780674669864
  • Pages : 276 pages

Download or read book The Placebo Effect written by Anne Harrington and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book The Placebo

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  • Author : Franklin G. Miller
  • Publisher : JHU Press
  • Release : 2013-08-14
  • ISBN : 142140866X
  • Pages : 348 pages

Download or read book The Placebo written by Franklin G. Miller and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2013-08-14 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thorough collection of classic and contemporary resources about the placebo effect. The placebo effect is a fascinating but elusive phenomena. Although no standard definition of the placebo effect exists, it is generally understood as consisting of responses of individuals to the psychosocial context of medical treatments or clinical encounters, as distinct from specific physiological effects of medical interventions. The Placebo is the first book to compile a selection of classic and contemporary published articles on the topic. Systematic investigation of the placebo effect emerged in the 1950s in response to the development of randomized controlled clinical trials that used “inert” placebo interventions as a pivotal element of scientific evaluation of novel drugs. In recent years, scientific and scholarly investigation of the placebo effect has increased dramatically, reflecting a growing interest in the connection between mind and body with respect to health, the development of brain imaging techniques, dissatisfaction with the reductionist and technological orientation of biomedicine, and growing attention to the use of complementary and alternative medical treatments. The Placebo is organized into three sections: the nature and significance of the placebo effect, experimental studies of the placebo effect, and ethical issues of placebos in research and in clinical practice. This comprehensive sourcebook will be invaluable to investigators and scholars alike.

Book Placebo Effects

    Book Details:
  • Author : Fabrizio Benedetti
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
  • Release : 2014
  • ISBN : 0198705085
  • Pages : 427 pages

Download or read book Placebo Effects written by Fabrizio Benedetti and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2014 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work critically reviews the mechanisms of placebo effects across all medical conditions, diseases, and therapies. Exhaustive in its coverage, and written by a world authority in the field, it is the definitive text on the placebo effect, and essential for researchers and clinicians in all medical specialities.

Book Placebos

    Book Details:
  • Author : Kathryn T Hall
  • Publisher : MIT Press
  • Release : 2022-10-04
  • ISBN : 0262371022
  • Pages : 218 pages

Download or read book Placebos written by Kathryn T Hall and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2022-10-04 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The biological power of the placebo effect. The power of placebos to ameliorate symptoms has been with us for centuries. Western medicine today is finding it increasingly difficult to ignore the efficacy of placebos. In some clinical trials with placebos as controls, inert or sham replicas of active pharmaceutical drugs and even sham surgeries have been found to be as beneficial as the intervention being tested. In this volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series, Kathryn Hall examines the power of placebos, showing how their effects can influence our clinical trials, clinical encounters and, collectively, Hall argues, our public health. Hall, who has studied the placebo effect for years, reviews the history of the placebo in medicine, tracing its evolution from quackery and patent medicine to its use as a control in clinical trials. She considers the ways that expectations and learning affect our response to placebos; advances in neuroimaging that reveal the inner workings of the placebo effect; the “nocebo” effect; placebo controls in randomized clinical trials; and the use of psychological profiles and genetics to predict individual placebo response. The effects of placebos have been hiding in plain sight; with this book, Hall helps bring them into clearer view.

Book Shadow Medicine

    Book Details:
  • Author : John S. Haller, Jr.
  • Publisher : Columbia University Press
  • Release : 2014-07-08
  • ISBN : 0231537700
  • Pages : 289 pages

Download or read book Shadow Medicine written by John S. Haller, Jr. and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-08 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can Evidence Based Medicine (EBM) and Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) find common ground? A distinguished historian of medicine, John S. Haller Jr., explores the epistemological foundations of EBM and the challenges these conceptual tools present for both conventional and alternative therapies. As he explores a possible reconciliation between their conflicting approaches, Haller maintains a healthy, scientific skepticism yet finds promise in select complementary and alternative (CAM) therapies. Haller elucidates recent research on the placebo effect and shows how a new engagement between EBM and CAM might lead to a more productive medical practice that includes both the objectivity of evidence-based medicine and the subjective truth of the physician-patient relationship. Haller's book tours key topics in the standoff between EBM and CAM: how and why the double blinded, randomized clinical trial (RCT) came to be considered the gold standard in modern medicine; the challenge of postmodern medicine as it counters the positivism of evidence-based medicine; and the politics of modern CAM and the rise of the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine. He conducts an in-depth case study of homeopathy, explaining why it has emerged as a poster-child for CAM, and assesses CAM's popularity despite its poor performance in clinical trials. Haller concludes with hope, showing how new experimental protocols might tease out the evidentiary basis for the placebo effect and establish a foundation for some reconciliation between EBM and CAM.

Book Science of the Placebo

    Book Details:
  • Author : Harry Guess
  • Publisher : BMJ Books
  • Release : 2002-03-15
  • ISBN : 9780727915948
  • Pages : 346 pages

Download or read book Science of the Placebo written by Harry Guess and published by BMJ Books. This book was released on 2002-03-15 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on a meeting in November 2000, this book brings together researchers from a wide range of disciplines to examine the biological, behavioral, social, cultural and ethical aspects related to the placebo effect. Perspectives on the necessity for including a placebo in randomized clinical trials will also be examined. This is the first attempt to examine the evidence-base of the placebo effect and will provide important information for clinicans.

Book Placebos for Pets

    Book Details:
  • Author : Brennen McKenzie
  • Publisher : Ockham Publishing Group
  • Release : 2022-06-29
  • ISBN : 1912701375
  • Pages : 436 pages

Download or read book Placebos for Pets written by Brennen McKenzie and published by Ockham Publishing Group. This book was released on 2022-06-29 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether online or in the local pet store, there are a bewildering variety of pet healthcare products and services to choose from. Diets and supplements, ancient herbs and folk remedies, and even high-tech treatments like hyperbaric oxygen tanks and laser therapy. Everything promises to give your pet better health and a longer life, and isn’t that what every pet owner wants? But how do you know if all of these products do what they claim? Are they safe? If they really are miraculous cures, why are so many offered only on the Internet or by a few veterinarians specializing in “alternative medicine?” Brennen McKenzie, a vet with twenty years of experience and the former president of the Evidence-based Veterinary Medicine Association, helps pet owners and veterinary professionals understand the claims and the evidence, allowing them to make better choices for their companions and patients.

Book Placebo

    Book Details:
  • Author : Leonard White
  • Publisher : Guilford Press
  • Release : 1985-08-21
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 502 pages

Download or read book Placebo written by Leonard White and published by Guilford Press. This book was released on 1985-08-21 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Placebo

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  • Author : Fabrizio Benedetti
  • Publisher : Springer
  • Release : 2014-10-10
  • ISBN : 3662445190
  • Pages : 307 pages

Download or read book Placebo written by Fabrizio Benedetti and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-10-10 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Due to the recent explosion of placebo research at many levels the Editors believe that a volume on Placebo would be a good addition to the Handbook of Experimental Pharmacology series. In particular, this volume will be built up on a meeting on Placebo which will be held in Tuebingen (Germany) in January 2013, and where the most prominent researchers in this field will present and exchange their ideas. The authors who will be invited to write chapters for this volume will be the very same speakers at this meeting, thus guaranteeing high standard and excellence in the topic that will be treated. The approach of the book is mainly pharmacological, including basic research and clinical trials, and the contents range from different medical conditions and systems, such as pain and the immune system, to different experimental approaches, like in vivo receptor binding and pharmacological/behavioral conditioning. Overall, the volume will give an idea of modern placebo research, of timely concepts in both experimental and clinical pharmacology, as well as of modern methods and tools in neuroscience.

Book The Emperor s New Drugs

Download or read book The Emperor s New Drugs written by Irving Kirsch and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2010-01-26 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do antidepressants work? Of course—everyone knows it. Like his colleagues, Irving Kirsch, a researcher and clinical psychologist, for years referred patients to psychiatrists to have their depression treated with drugs before deciding to investigate for himself just how effective the drugs actually were. Over the course of the past fifteen years, however, Kirsch's research—a thorough analysis of decades of Food and Drug Administration data—has demonstrated that what everyone knew about antidepressants was wrong. Instead of treating depression with drugs, we've been treating it with suggestion. The Emperor's New Drugs makes an overwhelming case that what had seemed a cornerstone of psychiatric treatment is little more than a faulty consensus. But Kirsch does more than just criticize: he offers a path society can follow so that we stop popping pills and start proper treatment for depression.

Book Understanding the Placebo Effect in Complementary Medicine

Download or read book Understanding the Placebo Effect in Complementary Medicine written by David Peters and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.