The Nocebo Effect: Overdiagnosis and Its Costs

by Stewart Justman

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 113752328X
• ISBN13: 9781137523280
• Release Date: August 2015
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"