The placebo response and the power of unconscious healing / Richard Kradin.

Author/creator Kradin, Richard L.
Format Book
Publication InfoNew York : Routledge, ©2008.
Descriptionxv, 278 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 22 cm
Subjects

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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 249-264) and index.
LCCN 2007048345
ISBN9780415956185 :
ISBN0415956188