The Nocebo Effect Overdiagnosis and Its Costs
Title:
The Nocebo Effect Overdiagnosis and Its Costs
ISBN:
9781137523297
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Edition:
1st ed. 2015.
Publication Information New:
New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
Physical Description:
XI, 272 p. online resource.
Abstract:
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.
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Electronic Access:
Full Text Available From Palgrave Social Sciences 2015 Packages
Language:
English