Meaning, Medicine and the 'Placebo Effect' (Cambridge Studies in Medical Anthropology, Series Number 9)
Meaning, Medicine and the “Placebo Effect” offers a medical anthropology perspective on the connections among meaning, medicine, and healing. Daniel E. Moerman examines the concept of the placebo effect and considers how interpretation and context shape medical experience and treatment.
About This Book
Meaning, Medicine and the “Placebo Effect” examines the relationship between meaning and medical experience.
Written from a medical anthropology perspective, the book considers the concept commonly known as the placebo effect.
It explores how interpretation and context may relate to healing and treatment.
This volume is part of the Cambridge Studies in Medical Anthropology series.
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