| Description |
xiii, 172 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
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unmediated n rdamedia |
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volume nc rdacarrier |
| Series |
Cambridge studies in medical anthropology ; [9] |
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Cambridge studies in medical anthropology ; 9.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 156-168) and index. |
| Audience |
1270L Lexile |
| Note |
Current Copyright Fee: GBP10.00 0. Uk |
| Contents |
Introduction: "Pickle ash" and "high blood" -- pt. I. The meaning response. 1. Healing and medical treatment. 2. The healing process. 3. Measurement and its ambiguities. 4. Doctors and patients. 5. Formal factors and the meaning response. 6. Knowledge and culture; illness and healing -- pt. II. Applications, challenges, and opportunities. 7. Psychotherapy: placebo effect or meaning response? 8. The neurobiology and cultural biology of pain. 9. "More research is needed": The cases of "adherence" and "self-reported health" 10. Other approaches: learning, expecting, and conditioning. 11. Ethics, placebos, and meaning -- pt. III. Meaning and human biology. 12. The extent (and limits) of meaning. 13. Conclusions: many claims, many issues. |
| Summary |
"Daniel E. Moerman presents a discussion of human reaction to the meaning of medical treatment. Many things happen in medicine that cannot be attributed to specific elements, such as drugs or surgical procedures. The same drug can work differently when presented in different colors; inert drugs (placebos, dummies) often have dramatic effects on people (the "placebo effect"); and effects can vary hugely among different European countries where the "same" medical condition is understood differently, or has different meanings, yielding different meaning responses. This lively book reviews and analyzes these matters in lucid, straightforward prose, guiding the reader through a very complex body of literature, leaving nothing unexplained but avoiding any oversimplification."--Jacket. |
| Link |
Electronic version: "Meaning, medicine and the 'placebo effect'" (UkLW)b15552846 |
| Subject |
Healing -- Psychological aspects.
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Placebos (Medicine)
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Cross-cultural studies.
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Medicine -- Philosophy.
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Outcome assessment (Medical care)
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| ISBN |
0521806305 |
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9780521806305 |
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0521000874 |
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9780521000871 |
| OCLC # |
ocm48893081 |
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