Placebo talks : modern perspectives on placebos in society / edited by Amir Raz and Cory S. Harris.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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This volume provides various perspectives on how psychosocial parameters - such as interpersonal rapport, historical and contemporary context, corporate memory, expectation, empathy, hope, conditioning, symbolic thinking and suggestion - play a role in forming placebo responses and placebo effects.

Chapter 1. Introdcution: placebos in modern society -- Chapter 2. Antidepressants and the placebo effect -- Chapter 3. Active expectations: insights on the prescription of sub-therapeutic doses of antidepressants for depression -- Chapter 4. Justifying deceptive placebos -- Chapter 5. Trust and the placebo effect -- Chapter 6. Placebo science in medical education -- Chapter 7. Looking at placebos through a cultural lens and finding meaning -- Chapter 8. Unpacking the placebo response: insights from ethnographic studies of healing -- Chapter 9. Pills in a pretty box: social sources of the placebo effect -- Chapter 10. Healing words: the placebo effect and journalism at the mind-body boundary -- Chapter 11. Placebolicious: the many flavors of placebos in Western diets and food cultures -- Chapter 12. Suggestion, placebos, and false memories -- Chapter 13. Fetish as placebo: the social history of a sexual idea -- Chapter 14. "Take two and vote in the morning": reflections on the political placebo effect -- Chapter 15. Placebos as social constructs to elucidate human behavior.

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