The powerful placebo : from ancient priest to modern physician / Arthur K. Shapiro and Elaine Shapiro.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shapiro, Arthur K., 1923- author.

Shapiro, Elaine, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Placebos (Medicine).

Clinical trials.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (297 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

With the renewed interest in the mind-body relationship as well as in the role of placebos in new and alternative medical procedures and therapies, the findings of this book are especially timely.

Contents:

Cover

Contents

Preface and Acknowledgments

1 The Placebo Effect in Medical History

2 The Semantics of the Placebo

3 Fraud, Faith, and Fads

4 The Placebo Effect in the Twentieth Century

5 Psychiatry and Other Psychotherapies

6 The History of Clinical Trials

7 The History of the Double-Blind Procedure

8 Ethical Controversies about the Use of Placebos, the Double Blind, and Controlled Clinical Trials

9 How Blind Is Blind?

10 Predicting Placebo Response

11 Summary and Conclusions

References

Index

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Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [239]-272) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4214-0134-7

OCLC:

605056625