| Meaning, Medicine and the 'Placebo Effect' Contributor(s): Moerman, Daniel E. (Author), Harwood, Alan (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0521806305 ISBN-13: 9780521806305 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $88.35 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: December 2002 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social - Health & Fitness | Healing - Medical | Alternative & Complementary Medicine |
| Dewey: 615.5 |
| LCCN: 2002020167 |
| Lexile Measure: 1270 |
| Series: Cambridge Studies in Medical Anthropology |
| Physical Information: 0.56" H x 6" W x 9" (0.99 lbs) 190 pages |
| Themes: - Topical - Health & Fitness |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Traditionally, the effectiveness of medical treatments is attributed to specific elements, such as drugs or surgical procedures. However, many other factors can significantly effect the outcome. Drugs with nationally advertised names can work better than the same drug without the name. Inert drugs (placebos, dummies) often have dramatic effects on some patients and effects can vary greatly among different European countries where the "same" medical condition is understood differently. Daniel Moerman traverses a complex subject area in this detailed examination of medical variables. Since 1993, Cambridge Studies in Medical Anthropology has offered researchers and instructors monographs and edited collections of leading scholarship in one of the most lively and popular subfields of cultural and social anthropology. Beginning in 2002, the CSMA series presents theme booksworks that synthesize emerging scholarship from relatively new subfields or that reinterpret the literature of older ones. Designed as course material for advanced undergraduates, graduate students, and for professionals in related areas (physicians, nurses, public health workers, and medical sociologists), these theme books will demonstrate how work in medical anthropology is carried out and convey the importance of a given topic for a wide variety of readers. About 160 pages in length, the theme books are not simply staid reviews of the literature. They are, instead, new ways of conceptualizing topics in medical anthropology that take advantage of current research and the growing edges of the field. |
Contributor Bio(s): Moerman, Daniel E.: - Daniel Moerman is William E. Stirton Professor of Anthropology at The University of Michigan-Dearborn. |