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'This lively book conceptualises the complex construct of the meaning response in medicine while taking advantage of current research and newly developed ideas.' Focus on Alternative and Complementary Therapies
'Daniel Moerman's Meaning, Medicine and the 'Placebo Effect' is a lucid accessible look at the power doctors have to restore patients to health with placebos.' London Review of Books
'Daniel Moerman wrote a very readably book. in plain English he describes the otherwise mostly statistically stated outcomes of experiments … it makes some of its chapters very useful for introductory courses. The book is also very useful for everyone who needs to 'break' through the pharmaceutical paradigm … it is all in all a beautiful book …'. Medische Antropologie: Tijdschrift over Gezondheid en Cultuur
'… fascinating … entertaining and accessible … I would recommend it to anyone who knows that there is more to pharmacology than just pharmacology and would like to try to understand why.' Pharmaceutical Physician
'… [this] recent volume in the Cambridge Studies in Medical Anthropology series [is an] important contribution to the study of medicines, not only for medical anthropologists, but for anybody who wants to understand what medicines do and how they do what they do … it is a testament to the book's quality that it raised many unanswered questions.' Journal of Biosocial Science
'This slim, engagingly written book attempts to replace the concept of 'placebo effect' … with a related one, 'meaning effect' … The book's conversational and chatty writing style … appears designed to appeal to an undergraduate audience. … Whether or not one accepts 'the meaning effect' as a novel or useful concept, the book is worth a read, and read critically is likely to provoke good classroom discussion.' Journal of the royal Anthropological Institute
'The wealth of experiments reported in this book demonstrate that medicine effects healing in many more ways than through active pharmaceutical ingredients… informative and entertaining…' Journal of Biological Science
'Daniel Moerman's Meaning, Medicine and the 'Placebo Effect' is a lucid accessible look at the power doctors have to restore patients to health with placebos.' London Review of Books
'Daniel Moerman wrote a very readably book. in plain English he describes the otherwise mostly statistically stated outcomes of experiments … it makes some of its chapters very useful for introductory courses. The book is also very useful for everyone who needs to 'break' through the pharmaceutical paradigm … it is all in all a beautiful book …'. Medische Antropologie: Tijdschrift over Gezondheid en Cultuur
'… fascinating … entertaining and accessible … I would recommend it to anyone who knows that there is more to pharmacology than just pharmacology and would like to try to understand why.' Pharmaceutical Physician
'… [this] recent volume in the Cambridge Studies in Medical Anthropology series [is an] important contribution to the study of medicines, not only for medical anthropologists, but for anybody who wants to understand what medicines do and how they do what they do … it is a testament to the book's quality that it raised many unanswered questions.' Journal of Biosocial Science
'This slim, engagingly written book attempts to replace the concept of 'placebo effect' … with a related one, 'meaning effect' … The book's conversational and chatty writing style … appears designed to appeal to an undergraduate audience. … Whether or not one accepts 'the meaning effect' as a novel or useful concept, the book is worth a read, and read critically is likely to provoke good classroom discussion.' Journal of the royal Anthropological Institute
'The wealth of experiments reported in this book demonstrate that medicine effects healing in many more ways than through active pharmaceutical ingredients… informative and entertaining…' Journal of Biological Science
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Daniel Moerman presents an innovative and enlightening discussion of human reaction to the meaning of medical treatment. Traditionally, the effectiveness of medical treatments is attributed to specific elements, such as drugs or surgical procedures, but many things happen in medicine which simply cannot be accounted for in this way. The same drug can work differently when presented in different colours; drugs with widely advertised names can work better than the same drug without the name; inert drugs (placebos, dummies) often have dramatic effects on people (the 'placebo effect'); and effects can vary hugely among different European countries where the 'same' medical condition is understood differently, or has different meanings. This is true for surgery as well as for internal medicine. This lively book reviews and analyses these matters in lucid, straightforward prose, guiding the reader through a very complex body of literature, leaving nothing unexplained but avoiding any over-simplification.
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Psychotherapies are placebos too,
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This review is from: Meaning, Medicine and the 'Placebo Effect' (Cambridge Studies in Medical Anthropology) (Paperback)
This is one of the most important and interesting books on a little researched phenomenon, the placebo. Moerman writes both engagingly and with thorough scholarship - a rare combination.
Placebos are closely related to suggestion and work in truly amazing ways on the body. Anyone who thinks that placebos are simply 19th century nostrums, little white sugar pills that 'make you feel better' but don't involve today's so-called sophisticated consumer should read this book and marvel at the body's capacity to be deceived, 'cured' and helped along through life by the placebo. Placebos work for the majority of us regardless of age, sex or education. Moerman shows that placebos work even in the case drugs such given for conditions such as duodenal ulcers. Participants in a trial were led to believe that there was a 2 week delay in the administration of the 'new wonder drug' and only showed signs of improved response after a 2 delay. Later they learned that the new drug had been administered (along with the placebos and controls from the start. A great book - buy a copy today!
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Meaning Responses - more than just the placebo effect.,
This review is from: Meaning, Medicine and the 'Placebo Effect' (Cambridge Studies in Medical Anthropology) (Paperback)
Moerman's concept of the 'meaning response', offers a useful model for both health practitioners and students of anthropology.He illustrates how patient responses can be influenced by factors such as pill colour, administration route and practitioner confidence. The reader gains an understanding of how the secular symbols and rituals of healthcare can contribute to patient outcome. Very insightful, thank you.
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Excellent scholarship, Readability and thought provoking,
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This review is from: Meaning, Medicine and the 'Placebo Effect' (Cambridge Studies in Medical Anthropology) (Paperback)
Daniel Moerman's book is both easy to read and an in depth analysis of how human beings respond to treatment in the context of their beliefs and culture which up to now has been described as a 'placebo effect'. Moerman suggests that we should reframe the placebo response as a 'meaning response' and gives fascinating examples of how this 'meaning response' plays out in the laboratory and in differing cultures - symbols, modes of treatment, and different illnesses can vary in their effects between cultures.
A very useful book to read if you're in therapeutics, medicine or interested in cognitive functions.
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