Medicine and Nursing, General Issues / Topics, Medical Sociology
The Nocebo Effect

The Nocebo Effect: Overdiagnosis and Its Costs

Hardback Published on: 11/08/2015
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Synopsis

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.

Publisher information

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US
  • ISBN: 9781137523280
  • Number of pages: 272
  • Dimensions: 148 x 225 x 21 mm
  • Weight: 488g
  • Languages: English