What Placebos Teach Us about Health and Care
A Philosopher Pops a Pill
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2023
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-009-45445-2 (ISBN)
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-009-45445-2 (ISBN)
This Element provides an overview of the different roles of placebos and a survey of significant studies, critically examines the concept of placebo offering a new definition that avoids the pitfalls of other attempts and highlights some impending challenges for placebo studies.
Placebo effects raise some fundamental questions concerning the nature of clinical and medical research. This Element begins with an overview of the different roles placebos play, followed by a survey of significant studies and dominant views about placebo mechanisms. It then critically examines the concept of placebo and offers a new definition that avoids the pitfalls of other attempts. The main philosophical lesson is that background medical theories provide the ontology for clinical and medical research. Because these theories often contain incoherent and arbitrary classifications, the concept of placebo inherits the same messiness. The Element concludes by highlighting some impending challenges for placebo studies.
Placebo effects raise some fundamental questions concerning the nature of clinical and medical research. This Element begins with an overview of the different roles placebos play, followed by a survey of significant studies and dominant views about placebo mechanisms. It then critically examines the concept of placebo and offers a new definition that avoids the pitfalls of other attempts. The main philosophical lesson is that background medical theories provide the ontology for clinical and medical research. Because these theories often contain incoherent and arbitrary classifications, the concept of placebo inherits the same messiness. The Element concludes by highlighting some impending challenges for placebo studies.
Introduction; 1. History and conceptual landscape; 2. A survey of Placebo studies; 3. Mechanisms of Placebo effects; 4. Philosophical implications of Placebos: from the elusiveness of Placebos to the challenge of authenticity; 5. The near future of Placebo research; References.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 05.12.2023 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Elements in Bioethics and Neuroethics |
| Zusatzinfo | Worked examples or Exercises |
| Verlagsort | Cambridge |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Entwicklungspsychologie |
| ISBN-10 | 1-009-45445-5 / 1009454455 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-009-45445-2 / 9781009454452 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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