Contributions

  • Harrington, Anne, 1960- - Contributor

Publication

1997 - Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass, Massachusetts

Language

English

Word Count

65,000 words, Guess

Page Count

260 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-100674669843
  • ISBN-139780674669840
  • LibraryThing3313641
  • Library of Congress Control Number97004324
  • Open LibraryOL659089M

Classifications

  • DDC615.5
  • LCCRM331 .P53 1997

Description

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.

First Sentence

In the clinic, it has been long acknowledged that "sham" treatments like sugar pills or injections with saline solution have the capacity to rally healing processes, sometimes of a dramatic nature, within patients.

Subjects

Other Editions

  • The placebo effect: an interdisciplinary explorationHarvard University Press1997-01-01

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