The Power of Placebos: How the Science of Placebos and Nocebos Can Improve Health Care (Hardcover)

Acknowledgments
1. Introduction: A Manifesto for the Next Revolution in Nocebo and Placebo Studies
Part I: The Troubled Story of Placebos and Nocebos
2. Please me, Please: Placebos and Nocebos in Practice
3. Inert Things with Effects
4. It Depends: The Relativity of Placebos and Nocebos in Clinical Trials
Part II: In Search of Placebo and Nocebo Effects
5. Missing the Forest for the Trees: Incomplete Stories About How Placebos Work
6. How (Not to) Measure Nocebo and Placebo Effects
7. Placebo and Nocebo Effects Don't Add Up
8. Blinding: When it's Important to Prevent People from Peeking Through Masks
Part III: Why Every Doctor Needs to be a Shaman, Placebo Controls should be Banned in Most Trials, and There is no Place for Unnecessary Nocebo Effects
9. The Ethical Requirement to Prescribe More Placebos and Avoid Nocebo Effects in Practice
10. Fewer Placebos and Nocebos in Trials: A Plea to Return to the Original Declaration of Helsinki
11. Public Health, Surgery, and Alternative Medicine: Special Topics
12. The Next Placebo Revolution: Helping Dad
Appendix
Index