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Kathryn T. Hall

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Kathryn T. Hall

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MIT Press
22 November 2022
History of medicine
Series: The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series
The biological power of the placebo effect.

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.
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Imprint:   MIT Press
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 178mm,  Width: 127mm, 
Weight:   369g
ISBN:   9780262544252
ISBN 10:   0262544253
Series:   The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series
Pages:   200
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Series Foreword vii Introduction: The Black Door 1 1 Placebos: A Brief History 15 2 How Expectations and Conditioning Shape Placebo Effects 47 3 The Brain on Placebos 67 4 Nocebo Effects in Modern Medicine 89 5 Placebos in Clinical Trials 107 6 The Placebo Effect in Surgery 127 7 Who Responds? 137 8 Placebo Redux 155 Acknowledgments 167 Glossary 169 Notes 173 Further Reading 193 Index 195

Kathryn T. Hall is Deputy Executive Director of Boston Public Health Commission and Assistant Professor (part-time) in Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Associate Molecular Biologist in the Division of Preventive Medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital.

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