{"product_id":"placebos-isbn-9780262544252","title":"Placebos","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe biological power of the placebo effect.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe power of placebos to ameliorate symptoms has been with us for centuries. Western medicine today is finding it increasingly difficult to ignore the efficacy of placebos. In some clinical trials with placebos as controls, inert or sham replicas of active pharmaceutical drugs and even sham surgeries have been found to be as beneficial as the intervention being tested. In this volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series, Kathryn Hall examines the power of placebos, showing how their effects can influence our clinical trials, clinical encounters and, collectively, Hall argues, our public health.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eHall, who has studied the placebo effect for years, reviews the history of the placebo in medicine, tracing its evolution from quackery and patent medicine to its use as a control in clinical trials. She considers the ways that expectations and learning affect our response to placebos; advances in neuroimaging that reveal the inner workings of the placebo effect; the “nocebo” effect; placebo controls in randomized clinical trials; and the use of psychological profiles and genetics to predict individual placebo response. The effects of placebos have been hiding in plain sight; with this book, Hall helps bring them into clearer view.\u003cbr\u003e Series Foreword vii\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: The Black Door 1\u003cbr\u003e1 Placebos: A Brief History 15\u003cbr\u003e2 How Expectations and Conditioning Shape Placebo Effects 47\u003cbr\u003e3 The Brain on Placebos 67\u003cbr\u003e4 Nocebo Effects in Modern Medicine 89\u003cbr\u003e5 Placebos in Clinical Trials 107\u003cbr\u003e6 The Placebo Effect in Surgery 127\u003cbr\u003e7 Who Responds? 137\u003cbr\u003e8 Placebo Redux 155\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments 167\u003cbr\u003eGlossary 169\u003cbr\u003eNotes 173\u003cbr\u003eFurther Reading 193\u003cbr\u003eIndex 195Kathryn T. Hall is Deputy Executive Director of Boston Public Health Commission and Assistant Professor (part-time) in Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Associate Molecular Biologist in the Division of Preventive Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital.\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"The MIT Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46300953280741,"sku":"NP9780262544252","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780262544252.jpg?v=1767734824","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/placebos-isbn-9780262544252","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}