The Nocebo Effect: Overdiagnosis and Its Costs

by Stewart Justman

Book Overview

The Nocebo Effect documents the transformation of normal conditions into medical problems and brings out the risks that flow from 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. The lingering effect of revoked diagnoses, the over-detection of lumps through breast self-examination, the occurrence in placebo groups of adverse events listed...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 113752328X
• ISBN13: 9781137523280
• Release Date: August 2015
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"