Cover
Title Page
Praise
Preface
Preface to the Paperback Edition
1 Placebos on Trial
2 What can Placebos Really do?
3 The Acute Phase Response
4 The Belief Effect
5 Why? The Evolutionary Question
6 Nocebo – Beyond Good and Bad
7 The Alternatives
8 Psychotherapy – the Purest Placebo?
9 The Witch Doctor’s Dilemma
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgements
About the Author
Notes
By the Same Author
Copyright
About the Publisher
