Placebo Talks: Modern perspectives on placebos in society
Amir Raz (Ed.)
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Description for Placebo Talks: Modern perspectives on placebos in society
Paperback. Placebo Talks provides various perspectives on how psychosocial parameters - such as interpersonal rapport, historical and contemporary context, corporate memory, expectation, empathy, hope, conditioning, symbolic thinking, and suggestion - play a role in forming placebo responses and placebo effects. Editor(s): Raz, Amir; Harris, Cory. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: JMM; MBX; MMGW; MMH; MMZ; PSAN. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156. .
Why do red placebos stimulate whereas blue placebos calm? Why do more placebos work better than few? And why do more expensive placebos work better than cheaper ones? These are some of the key questions that often come to mind when we consider the slippery and counterintuitive field of placebo science. Rather than consider placebos through the narrow narrative of "sugar pills" in clinical trials, this book provides various perspectives on how psychosocial parameters - such as interpersonal rapport, historical and contemporary context, corporate memory, expectation, empathy, hope, conditioning, symbolic thinking, and suggestion - play a role in ... Read more
Why do red placebos stimulate whereas blue placebos calm? Why do more placebos work better than few? And why do more expensive placebos work better than cheaper ones? These are some of the key questions that often come to mind when we consider the slippery and counterintuitive field of placebo science. Rather than consider placebos through the narrow narrative of "sugar pills" in clinical trials, this book provides various perspectives on how psychosocial parameters - such as interpersonal rapport, historical and contemporary context, corporate memory, expectation, empathy, hope, conditioning, symbolic thinking, and suggestion - play a role in ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
304
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Weight
472g
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780199680702
SKU
V9780199680702
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About Amir Raz (Ed.)
Professor Raz earned his Ph.D. in Brain Science from the Interdisciplinary Center for Computational Neuroscience at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem under the supervision of the late Professor Shlomo Bentin. He then went on to a post-doctoral fellowship with Professor Michael Posner at the Weill Medical College of Cornell University, where he took on a faculty position thereafter. He then ... Read more
Reviews for Placebo Talks: Modern perspectives on placebos in society
Books of collected papers are rarely either cohesive or persuasive. This one - like the placebo effect itself - defies the rules. It is a book of big ideas with considerable implications.
Martin Cohen, The Philosopher.co.uk
These accounts by some of the best scholars in the field, make for a cogent triangulation of the qualities and virtues of ... Read more
Martin Cohen, The Philosopher.co.uk
These accounts by some of the best scholars in the field, make for a cogent triangulation of the qualities and virtues of ... Read more