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UC Berkeley Perspectives in Medical Humanities Title To Feel What Others Feel: Social Sources of the Placebo Effect Permalink https://escholarship.org/uc/item/38h7x0m7 ISBN 9780983463993 Author Justman, Stewart Publication Date 2013-01-13 eScholarship.org Powered by the California Digital Library University of California To Feel What Others Feel Social Sources of the Placebo Effect Perspectives in Medical Humanities Perspectives in Medical Humanities publishes peer reviewed scholarship produced or reviewed under the auspices of the University of California Medical Humanities Consortium, a multi-campus collaborative of faculty, students, and trainees in the humanities, medicine, and health sciences. Our series invites scholars from the humanities and health care professions to share narratives and analysis on health, healing, and the contexts of our beliefs and practices that impact biomedical inquiry. General Editor Brian Dolan, PhD, Professor of Social Medicine and Medical Humanities, University of California, San Francisco (ucsf) Recent Titles Clowns and Jokers Can Heal Us: Comedy and Medicine By Albert Howard Carter iii (Fall 2011) The Remarkables: Endocrine Abnormalities in Art By Carol Clark and Orlo Clark (Winter 2011) Health Citizenship: Essays in Social Medicine and Biomedical Politics By Dorothy Porter (Winter 2011) What to Read on Love, not Sex: Freud, Fiction, and the Articulation of Truth in Modern Psychological Science By Edison Miyawaki, MD; Foreword by Harold Bloom (Fall 2012) Patient Poets: Illness from Inside Out By Marilyn Chandler McEntyre (Fall 2012) www.medicalhumanities.ucsf.edu This series is made possible by the generous support of the Dean of the School of Medicine at ucsf, the Center for Humanities and Health Sciences at ucsf, and a Multicampus Research Program Grant from the University of California Office of the President. To My Wife and Children To Feel What Others Feel Social Sources of the Placebo Effect Stewart Justman University of California Medical Humanities Press 2012 First published in 2012 by University of California Medical Humanities Press in partnership with eScholarship | University of California San Francisco – berkeley – london © 2012 by Stewart Justman University of California Medical Humanities Consortium 3333 California Street, Suite 485 San Francisco, CA 94143-0850 Cover Design by Eduardo de Ugarte Library of Congress Control Number: 2012953399 isbn (paperback) 978-0-9834639-9-3 Printed in usa Contents Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1 Heartsease: Medicine and Social Context 16 2 Suicide in Utopia 23 3 Malady and Remedy in Hamlet 30 4 The Power of Suggestion: Eve and the Apple 41 5 To Feel What Others Feel: Two Episodes from 18th-Century Medicine 48 6 To Feel What Others Feel: Mind and Body 59 7 The Invalidism of Mr. Woodhouse 71 8 The Transfusion of Life: Tolstoy’s “Master and Man” 77 9 The Pollyanna Principle 84 10 Medicine Marketed: Two Episodes 90 11 The Power of Rhetoric: Two Healing Movements 102 12 From Medicine to Psychotherapy: The Placebo Effect 116 13 Can Placebos Survive Disclosure? 132 14 Suicide in Dystopia: “Howl” 142 15 The Prostate Cancer Epidemic— What Spawned It? 148 Epilogue 158 Notes 163 Index 202 Acknowledgments My gratitude goes to Linda Frey, Marsha Frey, Cory Harris, Richard McNally, Michael Mayer, and Amir Raz; to Drs. Barnett Kramer, Andrew Leuchter, Jean-Luc Mommaerts, Paul Schellhammer, and Anthony Zietman; to Frederick Crews, who first got me interested in the placebo effect; and to series editor Brian Dolan for his unfailing help.
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