Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-264) and index.
Contents:
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.
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