Placebo
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Placebo

Mind over Matter in Modern Medicine

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eBook - ePub

Placebo

Mind over Matter in Modern Medicine

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About This Book

A lucid and stimulating explanation of how the body’s natural healing mechanisms work – and how they can be triggered in non-chemical ways via the ‘placebo effect’.

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Publisher
HarperCollins
Year
2014
ISBN
9780007394265

Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Praise
  3. Contents
  4. Preface
  5. 1:Placebos on Trial
  6. 2: What can Placebos Really do?
  7. 3: The Acute Phase Response
  8. 4: The Belief Effect
  9. 5: Why? The Evolutionary Question
  10. 6: Nocebo – Beyond Good and Bad
  11. 7: The Alternatives
  12. 8: Psychotherapy – The Purest Placebo?
  13. 9: The Witch Doctor’s Dilemma
  14. Conclusion
  15. Bibliography
  16. Index
  17. Acknowledgements
  18. About the Author
  19. Notes
  20. By the Same Author
  21. Copyright
  22. About the Publisher