Placebo Effects: The Meaning of Care in Medicine (The International Library of Bioethics)

Preface
Part of the Text Builds Upon the Following Papers, and Both the Co-authors and the Publishers Have Given Their Permission for the Use of the Papers
Contents
1 Introduction
	1.1 Ten Papers—Ten Perspectives
	1.2 Placebo Effects in Literature
	1.3 Conceptual Confusion—An Introduction
	References
2 The Concepts
	2.1 Early History of the Concepts
	2.2 Modern Definitions and Their Problems
	2.3 New Terminology—Suggestions and Problems
	References
3 Placebo Effects
	3.1 But Is There a Placebo Effect After All?
	3.2 Body and Mind and Placebo Effects
	3.3 Why Do Placebo Effects Exist?
	3.4 Mechanisms of Placebo Effects
	3.5 Is There a Placebo Personality?
	3.6 What Is There Outside Clinical Medicine?
	3.7 Placebo Effect and Hawthorne Effect
	3.8 Placebo Effects in Children
	3.9 Placebo Effects in Non-human Animals
	3.10 Nocebo Effect—The Evil Brother
	References
4 Clinical Use of Placebos
	4.1 Are Placebos Used in Clinical Practice?
	4.2 Impure Placebo—Conceptual Confusion Revisited
	4.3 The Ethics of Using Placebos in Clinical Practice
	4.4 Patient Autonomy and the Use of Placebos
	4.5 Open Label Placebos
	References
5 Placebo Research and Clinical Practice
	5.1 Context Effect
	5.2 What Can the Physician Do?
	References
6 Conclusions