Cory Harris and Amir Raz: Preface
Anne Harrington: Foreword
Part I: Introduction
1: Cory harris and Veronica de Jong: Placebos and beyond
Part II: The Practitioner Lens
2: Irving Kirsch: Antidepressants and the placebo effect
3: Veronica de Jong and Amir Raz: Active expectations: Insights on
the prescription of sub-therapeutic doses of antidepressants for
depression
4: Bennett Foddy: Justifying deceptive placebos
5: Marie Prévost and Amir Raz: Trust and the placebo effect
6: Natasha Campbell and Amir Raz: Placebo science in medical
education
Part III: The Cultural Lens
7: Daniel Moerman: Looking at placebos through a cultural lens and
finding meaning
8: Laurence Kirmayer: Unpacking the placebo response: Lessons from
ethnographic studies of healing
9: Stewart Justman: Pills in a Pretty Box: Social Sources of the
Placebo Effect
10: Steve Silberman: Healing words: the placebo effect and
journalism at the mind-body boundary
Part IV: The Placebo Lens
11: Cory Harris and Timothy Jones: Placebolicious: the many
flavours of placebo in diet and food culture
12: Elizabeth Loftus and Melanie Takarangi: Suggestion, Placebos,
and False Memories
13: Edward Shorter: Fetish as Placebo: The Social History of a
Sexual Idea
14: Michael Orsini and Paul Saurette: 'Take two and see me in the
morning': Reflections on the political placebo effect
Part V: Concluding Remarks
15: Amir Raz: Placebo Science: New paradigms and future directions
Professor Raz earned his Ph.D. in Brain Science from the
Interdisciplinary Center for Computational Neuroscience at the
Hebrew University of Jerusalem under the supervision of the late
Professor Shlomo Bentin. He then went on to a post-doctoral
fellowship with Professor Michael Posner at the Weill Medical
College of Cornell University, where he took on a faculty position
thereafter. He then joined the faculty at Columbia University in
the City of New York and
later became the Canada Research Chair at McGill University in
Montreal, Canada. Cory Harris became interested in placebo effects
while studying traditional medicines in collaboration with First
Nations
Elders and Healers in Québec, Canada. While their research on
herbal medicine revealed a wealth of pharmacological activity, the
therapeutic value of traditional healing extended far beyond
bioactive molecules. Cory earned his Ph.D. in Biology and
Biochemistry before completing post-doctoral fellowships at McGill
University's Centre for Indigenous Peoples Nutrition and the Lady
Davis Institute for Medical Research in Montréal. In 2013, Cory
joined the Department of Biology at the
University of Ottawa, where his research continues to explore
Indigenous and alternative medicine using an interdisciplinary
lens.
Books of collected papers are rarely either cohesive or persuasive.
This one - like the placebo effect itself - defies the rules. It is
a book of big ideas with considerable implications.
*Martin Cohen, The Philosopher.co.uk*
These accounts by some of the best scholars in the field, make for
a cogent triangulation of the qualities and virtues of placebos
across a wide range of disciplines relevant to human behaviour.
*Anticancer Research, Vol. 36 (2016)*
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