Surgery, The Ultimate Placebo

Surgery, The Ultimate Placebo Harris, Ian.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Harris, Ian
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	NewSouth 2016.
Subjects:	Surgery > Psychological aspects. Surgery > Risk factors. Surgery > Psychological aspects Surgery > Risk factors
Online Access:	Click for online access

Table of Contents:

Intro
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Introduction
1. The placebo effect
What is the placebo effect and how does it work?
2. The science of medicine
or lack of it
What makes 'good' evidence?
3. Building the perfect placebo
What makes a good placebo?
4. Putting surgery to the (placebo) test
Examples of studies using sham surgery
5. The surgical scrap heap
Operations that have faded away due to a lack of effectiveness
6. Today's placebo surgeries
Current surgical procedures under question
7. Why do we still do it?
Reasons behind the persistence of surgery that is not effective
8. Surgery has a placebo effect
so what?
The case against using the placebo effect
9. What can we do about it?
As patients, doctors, researchers, funders and as a society
References
Acknowledgements