The powerful placebo : from ancient priest to modern physician / Arthur K. Shapiro and Elaine Shapiro.

Until this century, most medications prescribed by physicians were pharmacologically inert, if not harmful. That is, physicians were prescribing placebos or worse without knowing it. In a sense, then, the history of medical treatment until relatively recently is the history of the placebo effect. Ba...

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Main Author: Shapiro, Arthur K., 1923-1995
Other Authors: Shapiro, Elaine
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. The Placebo Effect in Medical History
  • 2. The Semantics of the Placebo
  • 3. Fraud, Faith, and Fads
  • 4. The Placebo Effect in the Twentieth Century
  • 5. Psychiatry and Other Psychotherapies
  • 6. The History of Clinical Trials
  • 7. The History of the Double-Blind Procedure
  • 8. Ethical Controversies about the Use of Placebos, the Double Blind, and Controlled Clinical Trials
  • 9. How Blind Is Blind?
  • 10. Predicting Placebo Response
  • 11. Summary and Conclusions.