Daniel E. Moerman

Meaning, Medicine and the 'Placebo Effect'

Herausgeber: Harwood, Alan

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

An innovative re-thinking of the placebo effect, first published in 2002, that opens up new ways of understanding the phenomenon.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 190
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. November 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 434g
• ISBN-13: 9780521806305
• ISBN-10: 0521806305
• Artikelnr.: 34936236

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.