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, ...
Read More
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.
Read Less
Add this copy of To Feel What Others Feel: Social Sources of the Placebo to cart. $17.13, new condition, Sold by Ingram Customer Returns Center rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from NV, USA, published 2012 by University of California Medical Humanities Press.
Edition:
2012, University of California Medical Humanities Press
Add this copy of To Feel What Others Feel: Social Sources of the Placebo to cart. $27.89, new condition, Sold by Ria Christie Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Uxbridge, MIDDLESEX, UNITED KINGDOM, published 2012 by University of California Medical Humanities Press.
Edition:
2012, University of California Medical Humanities Press
Add this copy of To Feel What Others Feel: Social Sources of the Placebo to cart. $32.26, new condition, Sold by Booksplease rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Southport, MERSEYSIDE, UNITED KINGDOM, published 2012 by University of California Medical Humanities Press.
Edition:
2012, University of California Medical Humanities Press
Add this copy of To Feel What Others Feel: Social Sources of the Placebo to cart. $40.29, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2012 by University of California Medic.
Edition:
2012, University of California Medical Humanities Press
