Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction / Anne Harrington
  • 1. The Placebo: Is It Much Ado about Nothing? / Arthur K. Shapiro and Elaine Shapiro
  • 2. Clinical Reflections on the Placebo Phenomenon / Howard Spiro
  • 3. The Nocebo Phenomenon: Scope and Foundations / Robert A. Hahn
  • 4. The Doctor as Therapeutic Agent: A Placebo Effect Research Agenda / Howard Brody
  • 5. Toward a Neurobiology of Placebo Analgesia / Howard L. Fields and Donald D. Price
  • 6. The Contribution of Desire and Expectation to Placebo Analgesia: Implications for New Research Strategies / Donald D. Price and Howard L. Fields
  • 7. The Role of Conditioning in Pharmacotheraphy / Robert Ader
  • 8. Specifying Nonspecifics: Psychological Mechanisms of Placebo Effects / Irving Kirsch
  • 9. Placebo, Pain, and Belief: A Biocultural Model / David B. Morris
  • Placebo: Conversations at the Disciplinary Borders / Anne Harrington.