The Placebo Effect: An Interdisciplinary Exploration

The placebo effect - is it much ado about nothing?, Arthur K. Shapiro and Elaine Shapiro clinical reflections on the placebo phenomenon, Howard Spiro the nocebo phenomenon - scope and foundations, Robert A. Hahn the doctor as therapeutic agent - a placebo effect research agenda, Howard Brody toward a neurobiology of placebo analgesia, Howard L. Fields and Donald D. Price the contribution of desire and expectation to placebo analgesia - implications for new research strategies, Donald D. Price and Howard L. Fields the role of conditioning in pharmacotherapy, Robert Ader specifying nonspecifics - psychological mechanisms of placebo effects, Irving Kirsch placebo, pain, and belief - a biocultural model, David B. Morris placebo - conversations at the disciplinary borders.