The Nocebo Effect: Overdiagnosis and Its CostsSpringer, 30.04.2016 - 272 Seiten 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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The Ills of Health | |
Searching for Signs | |
Overdiagnosis and Its Harms | |
Name Games | |
Two Cases of Medical Activism | |
The Satiric Tradition and Mental Disorders | |
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