To Feel What Others Feel: Social Sources of the Placebo Effect by Justman, Stewart

To Feel What Others Feel: Social Sources of the Placebo Effect (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780983463993)

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To Feel What Others Feel: Social Sources of the Placebo Effect by Justman, Stewart

To Feel What Others Feel: Social Sources of the Placebo Effect

$19.95

To Feel What Others Feel: Social Sources of the Placebo Effect

$19.95
Format: Paperback
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How is it that people in search of healing were at one time able to experience the therapeutic effects of "animal magnetism"? The evidence suggests that those who went in for treatments we would now call placebos didn't feign their sensations but felt what they supposed others felt; they reacted as social beings. In one way or another, so do we today. But while the feeling of membership buoys us and may contribute to health, that is not all it can do, medically speaking. In this study a humanist looks at the placebo effect, taking into account both its history and its ambiguity and bringing out the more questionable potential of some health fashions, trends, and movements of our own time.

Author: Stewart Justman
ISBN-10: 0983463999
ISBN-13: 9780983463993
Publisher: University of California Medical Humanities P
Language: English
Published: 11/09/2012
Pages: 218
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.72lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.50d

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