A phenomenology of the 'placebo effect' taking meaning from the mind to the body

Journal of Medicine and Philosophy

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 58-79

  Frenkel, Oron ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Meaning; Phenomenology; Placebo effect

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; ARTICLE; HUMAN; PARKINSON DISEASE; PEPTIC ULCER; PLACEBO EFFECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

HUMANS; MIND-BODY RELATIONS (METAPHYSICS); PARKINSON DISEASE; PEPTIC ULCER; PLACEBO EFFECT;

EID: 47249153570     PISSN: 03605310     EISSN: 17445019     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jmp/jhm005     Document Type: Article

References (35)

1. Basmajian, J. V. 1977. Learned control of single motor units, eds. G. E. Schwartz and J. Beatty Biofeedback: Theory and research (pp. 415 - 431). New York : Academic Press.
2. Benedetti, F., M. Amanzio, S. Baldi, C. Casadio, and G. Maggi. 1999. Inducing placebo respiratory depressant responses in humans via opioid receptors. European Journal of Neuroscience 11 : 625-631
3. Benedetti, F., G. Maggi, and L. Lopiano. 2003a. Open versus hidden medical treatments: The patient's knowledge about a therapy affects the therapy outcome. Preve ntion and Treatment 6 : Article 1
4. Benedetti, F., A. Pollo, L. Lopiano, M. Lanotte, S. Vighetti, and I. Rainero. 2003b. Conscious expectation and unconscious conditioning in analgesic, motor, and hormonal placebo/ nocebo responses. The Journal of Neuroscience 23 : 4315-4323
5. Branthwaite, A., and P. Cooper. 1981. Analgesic effects of branding treatment of headaches British Medical Journal 282 : 1576-1578
6. Brody, H. 1997. The doctor as therapeutic agent: A placebo research agenda, ed. A. Harrington The placebo effect: An interdisciplinary exploration (pp. 77 - 91).
7. Cambridge : Harvard Coronary Drug Project Research Group. 1980. Influence of adherence to treatment and response of cholesterol on mortality in the coronary drug project. New England Journal of Medicine 303 : 1038-1041
8. de Craen, A. J., D. E. Moerman, S. H. Heisterkamp, G. N. Tytgat, J. G. Tijssen, and J. Kleijnen 1999. Placebo effect in the treatment of duodenal ulcer. British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology 48 : 853-860
9. de Craen, A. J., P. J. Roos, A. Leonard de Vries, and J. Kleijnen. 1996. Effect of colours of drugs: Systematic review of perceived effects of drugs and of their effectiveness. British Medical Journal 313 : 1624-1626
10. de la Fuente-Fernandez, R., T. J. Ruth, V. Sossi, M. Schulzer, D. B. Calne, and A. J. Stoessl 2001. Expectation and dopamine release: Mechanism of the placebo effect in Parkinson's disease. Science 293 : 1164 - 5.
11. Dreyfus, H. L. 1999. The primacy of phenome nology over logical analysis. Philosophical Topics 27 : 3-24.
12. Dreyfus, H. L. 2002. Intelligence without representation - Merleau-Ponty's critique of mental representation. Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences 1 : 367-383
13. Foucault, M. 1975. The birth of the clinic: An archaeology of medical perception (Sheridan Smith, A. M., Trans.). New York : Vintage Books
14. Gibson, J. J. 1986. The ecological approach to visual perception. Hillsdale : Lawrence Erlbaum Associates
15. Hahn, R. A. 1997. The nocebo phenomenon: Scope and foundations, ed. A. Harrington. The placebo effect: An interdisciplinary exploration (pp. 56 - 76). Cambridge Harvard.
16. Hahn, R. A., and A. Kleinman. 1983. Belief as pathogen, belief as medicine: " Voodoo death " and the " placebo phenomenon " in anthropological perspective. Medical Anthropology Quarterly 14 : 319
17. Halpern, J. 2003. What is clinical empathy?. Journal of General Internal Medicine 18 : 670 - 4
18. Kaptchuk, T. J. 2002. The placebo effect in alternative medicine: Can the performance of a healing ritual have clinical significance? Annals of Internal Medicine 136 : 817-825
19. Kirsch, I. 1997. Specifying nonspecifics: Psychological mechanisms of placebo effects, ed. A. Harrington, The placebo effect: An interdisciplinary exploration (pp. 166 - 185). Cambridge : Harvard
20. Kirsch, I. 2004. Conditioning, expectancy, and the placebo effect: Comment on Stewart-Williams and Podd (2004). Psychological Bulletin 130 : 341 - 3
21. Lanza, F., J. Goff, C. Scowcroft, D. Jennings, and P. Greski-Rose. 1994. Double-blind comparison of lansoprazole, ranitidine, and placebo in the treatment of acute duodenal ulcer. Lansoprazole study group. American Journal of Gastroenterology 89 : 1191-1200
22. Marcel, G. 1949. Being and having (Farrer, K. Trans .). Westminister : Dacre Press
23. Merleau-Ponty, M., 1962. Phenomenology of perception (Smith, C., Trans.). London : Routledge
24. Moerman, D. 2002. Meaning, medicine, and the ' placebo effect '. Cambridge : University Press
25. Moerman, D., and W. B. Jonas. 2002. Deconstructing the placebo effect and finding the meaning response. Annals of Internal Medicine 136 : 471-476
26. Phillips, D. P., T. E. Ruth, and L. M. Wagner. 1993. Psychology and survival. The Lancet 342 : 1142-1145
27. Pizzo, P. A., K. J. Robichaud, B. K. Edwards, C. Schumaker, B. S. Kramer, and A. Johnson 1983. Oral antibiotic prophylaxis in patients with cancer: A double-blind randomized placebo-controlled trial. Journal of Pediatrics 102 : 125-133
28. Rescorla, R. A. 1988. Pavlovian conditioning: It's not what you think it is. American Psychologist 43 : 151-160
29. Rizo, C. A., A. R. Jadad, M. Enkin, M. S. Parmar, J. Sotelo, G. S. Rosenbaum, and P. R. Woipe 2002. What's a good doctor and how do you make one?. British Medical Journal 325 : 711-715
30. Shapiro, A., and E. Shapiro. 1997. The powerful placebo. Baltimore : Hopkins Press
31. Siegel, S. 1983. Classical conditioning, drug tolerance, and drug dependence, ed. Y. Israel Research advances in alcohol and drug problems, (Vol. 7, pp. 207 - 246). New York: Plenum Press
32. New York : Plenum Press Stewart-Williams, S. 2004. The placebo puzzle: Putting together the pieces. Health Psychology 23 : 198-206.
33. Stewart-Williams, S., and J. Podd. 2004. The placebo effect: Dissolving the expectancy versus conditioning debate. Psychological Bulletin 130 : 324-340
34. Sullivan, M. D. 1993. Placebo controls and epistemic control in orthodox medicine. The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 18 : 213-231
35. Svenaeus, F. 2001. The phenomenology of health and illness, ed. S. Toombs, Handbook of phenomenology and medicine (pp. 87 - 108). Netherlands : Kluwer Academic