Placebo Talks

Modern Perspectives on Placebos in Society
Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-0-19-968070-2
Verlag: OUP UK

Buch, Englisch, 304 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 468 g

Why do red placebos stimulate whereas blue placebos calm? Why do more placebos work better than few? And why do more expensive placebos work better than cheaper ones? These are some of the key questions that often come to mind when we consider the slippery and counterintuitive field of placebo science.

Rather than consider placebos through the narrow narrative of "sugar pills" in clinical trials, this book provides various perspectives on how psychosocial parameters - such as interpersonal rapport, historical and contemporary context, corporate memory, expectation, empathy, hope, conditioning, symbolic thinking, and suggestion - play a role in forming placebo responses and placebo effects. The book provides modern perspectives on placebos in society, including in education, government, industry, media, and current culture. The editors use three different themes to elucidate and elaborate current conceptualizations of placebos and their accoutrements: the Practioner lens, the Cultural lens, and the lens of placebo science, itself. These accounts by some of the best scholars in the field, make for a cogent triangulation of the qualities and virtues of placebos across a wide range of disciplines relevant to human behavior.

Placebo Talks invites readers to discover how placebos may speak to their own experiences across health, society, sustenance, and related aspects of contemporary life.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Raz, Amir

Harris, Cory

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizinische Fachgebiete Pharmakologie, Toxikologie
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Neurobiologie, Verhaltensbiologie
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Geschichte der Medizin
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizinische Fachgebiete Neuropharmakologie, Psychopharmakologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Biologische Psychologie, Neuropsychologie
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizinische Fachgebiete Psychiatrie, Sozialpsychiatrie, Suchttherapie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Preface

- Foreword

- Part I: Introduction

- 1: Cory harris and Veronica de Jong: Placebos and beyond

- Part II: The Practitioner Lens

- 2: Irving Kirsch: Antidepressants and the placebo effect

- 3: Veronica de Jong and Amir Raz: Active expectations: Insights on the prescription of sub-therapeutic doses of antidepressants for depression

- 4.: Bennett Foddy: Justifying deceptive placebos

- 5: Marie Prévost and Amir Raz: Trust and the placebo effect

- 6: Natasha Campbell and Amir Raz: Placebo science in medical education

- Part III: The Cultural Lens

- 7: Daniel Moerman: Looking at placebos through a cultural lens and finding meaning

- 8: Laurence Kirmayer: Unpacking the placebo response: Lessons from ethnographic studies of healing

- 9: Stewart Justman: Pills in a Pretty Box: Social Sources of the Placebo Effect

- 10: Steve Silberman: Healing words: the placebo effect and journalism at the mind-body boundary

- Part IV: The Placebo Lens

- 11: Cory Harris and Timothy Jones: Placebolicious: the many flavours of placebo in diet and food culture

- 12: Elizabeth Loftus and Melanie Takarangi: Suggestion, Placebos, and False Memories

- 13: Edward Shorter: Fetish as Placebo: The Social History of a Sexual Idea

- 14: Michael Orsini and Paul Saurette: 'Take two and see me in the morning': Reflections on the political placebo effect

- Part V: Concluding Remarks

- 15: Amir Raz: Placebo Science: New paradigms and future directions

Über Autor(innen)

Professor Raz earned his Ph.D. in Brain Science from the Interdisciplinary Center for Computational Neuroscience at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem under the supervision of the late Professor Shlomo Bentin. He then went on to a post-doctoral fellowship with Professor Michael Posner at the Weill Medical College of Cornell University, where he took on a faculty position thereafter. He then joined the faculty at Columbia University in the City of New York and later became the Canada Research Chair at McGill University in Montreal, Canada.

Cory Harris became interested in placebo effects while studying traditional medicines in collaboration with First Nations Elders and Healers in Québec, Canada. While their research on herbal medicine revealed a wealth of pharmacological activity, the therapeutic value of traditional healing extended far beyond bioactive molecules. Cory earned his Ph.D. in Biology and Biochemistry before completing post-doctoral fellowships at McGill University's Centre for Indigenous Peoples Nutrition and the Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research in Montréal. In 2013, Cory joined the Department of Biology at the University of Ottawa, where his research continues to explore Indigenous and alternative medicine using an interdisciplinary lens.