Introduction

The Placebo: 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
Edited by Anne Harrington

Contributors

Index

Anne Harrington is Loeb Harvard College Professor and Professor for the History of Science at Harvard University.

Read More by Anne Harrington:

• The Dalai Lama at MIT