Daniel E. Moerman (Dearborn University of Michigan)

Meaning, Medicine and the 'Placebo Effect'

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Traditionally, the effectiveness of medical treatments is attributed to specific elements, such as drugs, but many things in medicine cannot be accounted for in this way. For example, inert drugs (placebos) often have dramatic effects on people. This 2002 book guides the reader expertly through a very complex body of literature.

Produktdetails

• Cambridge Studies in Medical Anthropology
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 190
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. September 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 290g
• ISBN-13: 9780521000871
• ISBN-10: 0521000874
• Artikelnr.: 22382664

Autorenporträt

Daniel Moerman is William E. Stirton Professor of Anthropology at The University of Michigan-Dearborn.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: 'Pickle ash' and 'High blood'
Part I. The Meaning Response: 1. Healing and medical treatment
2. The healing process
3. Measurement and its ambiguities
4. Doctors and patients
5. Formal factors and the meaning response
6. Knowledge and culture
illness and healing
Part II. Applications, Challenges and Opportunities: 7. Psychotherapy: placebo effect or meaning response?
8. The neurobiology and cultural biology of pain
9. 'More research is needed': the cases of 'adherence' and 'self-reported health'
10. Other approaches: learning, expecting and conditioning
11. Ethics, placebos and meaning
Part III. Meaning and Human Biology: 12. The extent (and limits) of meaning
13. Conclusions: many claims, many issues.