The placebo response and the power of unconscious healing
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New York
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Routledge
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c2008
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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xv, 278 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
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Includes bibliographical references )p. 249-264( and index
CONTENTS NOTE
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The placebo response -- The basis of the placebo response in sickness and healing -- A brief history of medicine and the changing implications of placebos -- Placebo effects: who gets them? -- What do we know about how placebos act? -- The anomalous placebo response -- Placebo and the truth -- The challenge of harnessing the placebo response