Stories
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Rethinking the placebo effect
The placebo effect has long been harnessed for both legitimate and fraudulent use, but we’re only just discovering how and why our bodies respond positively to dummy drugs, as Anjuli Sharma reveals.
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Believe yourself better
There’s more to recovery than medication. In future, our unconscious minds could be recruited to put a positive spin on our health problems, helping us feel better faster.
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A medieval guide to practical magic
With few sources of effective help available when treating an injured patient, the medieval physician could instead stage a healing ceremony using a practical how-to guide he carried with him.
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Love, longing and tea from the polski sklep
For people of Polish origin in the UK, herbal tea is closely tied to health and shared history. Kasia Tomasiewicz explores her changing relationship to these tea-related cultural habits.
Catalogue
- Books
Placebos and the philosophy of medicine : clinical, conceptual, and ethical issues / Howard Brody.
Brody, Howard.Date: 1980- Books
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Meaning, medicine, and the "placebo effect" / Daniel E. Moerman.
Moerman, Daniel E.Date: 2002- Books
Placebo : mind over matter in modern medicine / Dylan Evans.
Evans, Dylan, 1966-Date: 2004- Books
Shadow medicine : the placebo in conventional and alternative therapies / John S. Haller Jr.
Haller, John S., Jr., 1940-Date: [2014]- Books
Meaning, medicine and the 'placebo effect' / Daniel Moerman.
Moerman, Daniel E.Date: 2002