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Author: Amir Raz (Canada Research Chair, Canada Research Chair, Faculty of Medicine, McGill University, Canada) ,
Cory Harris (Assistant Professor, Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, University of Ottawa, Canada)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 16.20cm
, Height: 1.60cm
, Length: 23.40cm
Weight: 0.478kg
ISBN: 9780199680702
ISBN 10: 0199680701
Pages: 304
Publication Date: 26 November 2015
Audience:
College/higher education
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: To order
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Reviews
Rather than consider placebos through the narrow narrative of sugar pills in clinical trials, this book provides various perspectives on how psychosocial parameters... play a role in forming placebo responses and placebo effects... 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)
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) * 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 *
Author Information
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.
