Placebos

Author : Kathryn T Hall
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2022-10-04
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780262544252

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Placebos by Kathryn T Hall Pdf

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.

Author : Irving Kirsch
Publisher : Random House
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2009-10-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781409086352

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The Emperor's New Drugs by Irving Kirsch Pdf

Everyone knows that antidepressant drugs are miracles of modern medicine. Professor Irving Kirsch knew this as well as anyone. But, as he discovered during his research, there is a problem with what everyone knows about antidepressant drugs. It isn't true. How did antidepressant drugs gain their reputation as a magic bullet for depression? And why has it taken so long for the story to become public? Answering these questions takes us to the point where the lines between clinical research and marketing disappear altogether. Using the Freedom of Information Act, Kirsch accessed clinical trials that were withheld, by drug companies, from the public and from the doctors who prescribe antidepressants. What he found, and what he documents here, promises to bring revolutionary change to the way our society perceives, and consumes, antidepressants. The Emperor's New Drugs exposes what we have failed to see before: depression is not caused by a chemical imbalance in the brain; antidepressants are significantly more dangerous than other forms of treatment and are only marginally more effective than placebos; and, there are other ways to combat depression, treatments that don't only include the empty promise of the antidepressant prescription. This is not a book about alternative medicine and its outlandish claims. This is a book about fantasy and wishful thinking in the heart of clinical medicine, about the seductions of myth, and the final stubbornness of facts.

Author : Pekka Louhiala
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2020-03-24
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783030273293

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Placebo Effects: The Meaning of Care in Medicine by Pekka Louhiala Pdf

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.

Author : David A. Jopling
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2008-05-29
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780199239504

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Talking Cures and Placebo Effects by David A. Jopling Pdf

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.

Author : Arthur K. Shapiro,Elaine Shapiro
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2000-10-17
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0801866758

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The Powerful Placebo by Arthur K. Shapiro,Elaine Shapiro Pdf

"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".

Author : Anne Harrington
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Chemotherapy
ISBN : 067466986X

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The Placebo Effect by Anne Harrington Pdf

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.

Author : Walter A. Brown,Walter Armin Brown
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2013-01-17
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9780199933853

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The Placebo Effect in Clinical Practice by Walter A. Brown,Walter Armin Brown Pdf

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.

Author : Leonard White,Bernard Tursky,Gary E. Schwartz
Publisher : Guilford Press
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1985-08-21
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : UCAL:B4952920

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Placebo by Leonard White,Bernard Tursky,Gary E. Schwartz Pdf

Author : Fabrizio Benedetti
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780199579518

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The Patient's Brain by Fabrizio Benedetti Pdf

Due to advances within neuroscience, we are now in a much better position to be able to describe and discuss the biological mechanisms that underlie the doctor-patient relationship. Using this knowlege, this book describes and demonstrates the power that the doctor's behaviour has on a patient's behaviour and capacity for recovery from illness.

Author : Franklin G. Miller,Luana Colloca,Ted J. Kaptchuk
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2013-08-14
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781421408668

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The Placebo by Franklin G. Miller,Luana Colloca,Ted J. Kaptchuk Pdf

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.

Author : Daniel E. Moerman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Healing
ISBN : OCLC:1076320194

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Meaning, Medicine, and the "placebo Effect" by Daniel E. Moerman Pdf

Author : Brennen McKenzie
Publisher : Ockham Publishing Group
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2022-06-29
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781912701377

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Placebos for Pets? by Brennen McKenzie Pdf

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.

Author : David Peters
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0443060312

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Understanding the Placebo Effect in Complementary Medicine by David Peters Pdf

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.

Author : Fabrizio Benedetti,Paul Enck,Elisa Frisaldi,Manfred Schedlowski
Publisher : Springer
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2014-10-10
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9783662445198

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Placebo by Fabrizio Benedetti,Paul Enck,Elisa Frisaldi,Manfred Schedlowski Pdf

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.

Author : Ian Harris
Publisher : NewSouth
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2016-03
Category : Medicine and psychology
ISBN : 1742234577

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Surgery, the Ultimate Placebo by Ian Harris Pdf

A senior surgeon suggests that many commonly performed operations are not necessary and that any benefits they offer are a placebo. For many complaints and conditions the benefits from surgery are lower, and the risks higher, than you or your surgeon think. In this book you will see how commonly performed operations can be found to be useless or even harmful when properly evaluated. Of course no surgeon is recommending invasive surgery in bad faith, but Ian Harris argues that the evidence for the success for many common operations, including knee arthroscopies, back fusion or cardiac stenting, become current accepted practice without full examination of the evidence. The placebo effect may be real, but is it worth the recovery time, expense and discomfort?