Power of Placebos

Power of Placebos

How the Science of Placebos and Nocebos Can Improve Health Care

Howick, Jeremy

Johns Hopkins University Press

01/2024

320

Dura

Inglês

9781421446387

15 a 20 dias

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Acknowledgments
Chapter 1. A Manifesto for the Next Revolution in Nocebo and Placebo Studies
Part I. The Troubled Story of Placebos and Nocebos
Chapter 2. Please Me, Please: Placebos and Nocebos in Practice
Chapter 3. Placebo Components and Meaningful Contexts: What Makes Inert Things Effective
Chapter 4. It Depends: The Relativity of Placebos and Nocebos in Clinical Trials
Part II. How Big are Placebo and Nocebo Effects?
Chapter 5. How (Not) to Measure Nocebo and Placebo Effects
Chapter 6. Missing the Forest for the Trees: Incomplete Stories about the Inner Workings of Placebos
Chapter 7: Placebo and Nocebo Effects Don't Add Up
Chapter 8: Blinding: Stopping People from Peeking through Masks
Part III. Why Every Doctor Needs to Be a Shaman and Why Placebo Controls Need to be Controlled
Chapter 9. The Ethical Requirement to Prescribe More Placebos and Avoid Nocebo Effects in Practice
Chapter 10. Fewer Placebos and Nocebos in Trials: A Plea to Return to the Original Declaration of Helsinki
Chapter 11. Public Health, Surgery, and Alternative Medicine: Special Topics
Chapter 12. The Next Placebo Revolution: Helping Dad
Appendices
1. Adolf Gruenbaum's Model and a Reply to Its Critics
2. Binary Outcomes May Underestimate Placebo Effects
3. Additivity versus Interaction: A Formalization
4. Balanced Placebo Design
5. The Nocebo Effect as a Smokescreen in the Great Statin Debate
6. The Many Faces of Blinding: Clarifying the Terminology
7. An Open Letter to the World Medical Association
8. More on Noninferiority Trials
References
Index
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Placebos, placebo effect, research studies, clinical trials, nocebos, bioethics, empathy, positive communication, empirical philosophy, placebo as medicine, healthcare, history of medicine, bioethics