Research Catalog

Title

The placebo : a reader / edited by Franklin G. Miller ... [et al.].

Publication

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, c2013.

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Additional Authors

Miller, Franklin G.

Description

xx, 327 p. : ill.; 28 cm.

Subject

• Bioethical Issues
• Placebos
• Placebo Effect
• Placebos (Medicine)
• Bioethics

Genre/Form

Collected Work

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Part 1. The concept and significance of the placebo effect -- 1. Conferences on therapy : the use of placebos in therapy -- 2. The powerful placebo -- 3. How much of the placebo "effect" is really statistical regression -- 4. The powerful placebo effect : fact or fiction? -- 5. Is the placebo powerless? Analysis of clinical trials comparing placebo with no treatment -- 6. The placebo concept in medicine and psychiatry -- 7. Deconstructing the placebo effect and finding the meaning response -- 8. The placebo effect in alternative medicine : can the performance of a healing ritual have clinical significance? -- part II. Experimental studies of the placebo effect -- section A. Pioneering efforts -- 9. effects of suggestion and conditioning on the action of chemical agents in human subjects : the pharmacology of placebos -- 10. A study of the placebo "reactor" -- 12. Placebo effect in the rat -- 13. Reduction of postoperative pain by encouragement and instruction of patients : a study of doctor-patient rapport -- 14. The interaction of psychologic stimuli and pharmacologic agents on airway reactivity in asthmatic subjects -- 15. The mechanism of placebo analgesia -- 16. Behaviorally conditioned immunosuppression and murine systemic lupus erythematosus -- 17. An investigation of drug expectancy as a function of capsule color and size and preparation form -- 18. Clinicians' expectations influence placebo analgesia
• Section B. Psychological mechanisms -- 19. The role of conditioning and verbal expectancy in the placebo response -- 20. Classical conditioning and the placebo effect -- 21. An analysis of factors that contribute to the magnitude of placebo analgesia in an experimental paradigm -- 22. Neuropharmacological dissection of analgesia : expectation-activated opioid systems versus conditioning-activated specific subsystems -- 23. Placebo analgesia induced by social observational learning -- 24. Placebo and opioid analgesia : imaging a shared neuronal network -- 25. Placebo-induced changes in fMRI in the anticipation and experience of pain -- 26. Placebo effects mediated by endogenous opioid activity on [Mu]-opioid receptors -- 27. Direct evidence for spinal cord involvement in placebo analgesia -- 28. The biochemical and neuroendocrine bases of the hyperalgesic nocebo effect -- 29. Expectation and dopamine release : mechanism of the placebo effect in Parkinson's disease -- 30. Placebo-responsive Parkinson patients show decreased activity in single neurons of subthalamic nucleus -- 31. Expectation enhances the regional brain metabolic and the reinforcing effects of stimulants in cocaine abusers -- section D. Contextual factors -- 32. Do double-blind studies with informed consent yield externally valid results? An empirical test -- 33. Response expectancies in placebo analgesia and their clinical relevance -- 34. Placebos without deception : a randomized controlled trial in irritable bowel syndrome -- 35. Finasteride 5mg and sexual side effects : how many of these are related to a nocebo phenomenon? -- 36. Overt versus covert treatment for pain, anxiety and Parkinson's disease -- 37. Components of placebo effect : randomised controlled trial in patients with irritable bowel syndrome -- 38. Conditioned pharmacotherapeutic effects : a preliminary study -- part III. Ethical issues raised by the use of placebos in research and clinical practice
• Section A. Research -- 39. The continuing unethical use of placebo controls -- 40. Placebo orthodoxy in clinical research II : ethical, legal, and regulatory myths -- 41. Placebo-controlled trials and active-control trials in the evaluation of new treatments -- Part I. Ethical and scientific issues -- 42. The ethics of placebo-controlled trials : a middle ground -- 43. Is placebo surgery unethical -- 44. Deception in research on the placebo effect -- 45. Inclusion of authorized deception in the informed consent process doesn not affect the magnitude of the placebo effect for experimentally induced pain -- 46. False hopes and best data : consent to research and the therapeutic misconception -- section B. Clinical practice -- 47. The use of the placebo interventions in medical practice : a national questionnaire surve of Danish clinicians -- 48. Prescribing "placebo treatments" : results of National Survey of U.S. internists and rheumatologists -- 49. The ethics of giving placebo -- 50. The lie that heals : the ethics of giving placebos -- 51. Placebo as a treatment for depression -- 52. The legitimacy of placebo treatments in clinical practice : evidence and ethics.

ISBN

• 9781421408668 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 142140866X (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2012036698

OCLC

810409725

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library