The Nocebo Effect: Overdiagnosis and Its Costs

The Nocebo Effect: Overdiagnosis and Its Costs

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Publisher's Synopsis

The Nocebo Effect documents the transformation of normal problems into medical ones and brings out the risks of this inflationary practice. One notable risk is that people labeled as sick may find themselves living up to their label through the alchemy of the nocebo effect.

Book information

ISBN: 9781137523280
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US
Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
Pub date:
Edition: First edition
DEWEY: 615.5
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 272
Weight: 488g
Height: 148mm
Width: 225mm
Spine width: 21mm