Placebos

Author : David A. Jopling
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199239509
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Talking Cures and Placebo Effects written by David A. Jopling and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2008-05-29 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Kathryn T Hall
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262544253
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Placebos written by Kathryn T Hall and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2022-10-04 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Brennen McKenzie
Publisher : Ockham Publishing Group
ISBN 13 : 1912701375
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Placebos for Pets? written by Brennen McKenzie and published by Ockham Publishing Group. This book was released on 2022-06-29 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Irving Kirsch
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 0465021042
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Emperor's New Drugs written by Irving Kirsch and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2010-01-26 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do antidepressants work? Of course—everyone knows it. Like his colleagues, Irving Kirsch, a researcher and clinical psychologist, for years referred patients to psychiatrists to have their depression treated with drugs before deciding to investigate for himself just how effective the drugs actually were. Over the course of the past fifteen years, however, Kirsch's research—a thorough analysis of decades of Food and Drug Administration data—has demonstrated that what everyone knew about antidepressants was wrong. Instead of treating depression with drugs, we've been treating it with suggestion. The Emperor's New Drugs makes an overwhelming case that what had seemed a cornerstone of psychiatric treatment is little more than a faulty consensus. But Kirsch does more than just criticize: he offers a path society can follow so that we stop popping pills and start proper treatment for depression.

Author : Walter A. Brown
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199933855
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Placebo Effect in Clinical Practice written by Walter A. Brown and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-01-17 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Pekka Louhiala
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030273296
Total Pages : 141 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Placebo Effects: The Meaning of Care in Medicine written by Pekka Louhiala and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-03-24 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Arthur K. Shapiro
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801866753
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Powerful Placebo written by Arthur K. Shapiro and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2000-10-17 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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
ISBN 13 : 9780674669864
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.6X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Placebo Effect written by Anne Harrington and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Kathryn T Hall
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262371022
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Placebos written by Kathryn T Hall and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2022-10-04 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Jeremy Howick
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421446383
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Power of Placebos written by Jeremy Howick and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2023-11-14 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book provides the most up-to-date overview of the nature, measurement, and ethics surrounding placebos. In addition to summarizing research on the placebo effect, the authors advocates for incorporation of the placebo effect in clinical practice and scientific studies"--