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Can Evidence Based Medicine (EBM) and Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) find common ground? A distinguished historian of medicine, John S. Haller Jr., explores the epistemological foundations of EBM and the challenges these conceptual tools present for both conventional and alternative therapies. As he explores a possible reconciliation between their conflicting approaches, Haller maintains a healthy, scientific skepticism yet finds promise in select complementary and alternative (CAM) therapies. Haller elucidates recent research on the placebo effect and shows how a new engagement between EBM and CAM might lead to a more productive medical practice that includes both the objectivity of evidence-based medicine and the subjective truth of the physician-patient relationship. Haller's book tours key topics in the standoff between EBM and CAM: how and why the double blinded, randomized clinical trial (RCT) came to be considered the gold standard in modern medicine; the challenge of postmodern medicine as it counters the positivism of evidence-based medicine; and the politics of modern CAM and the rise of the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine. He conducts an in-depth case study of homeopathy, explaining why it has emerged as a poster-child for CAM, and assesses CAM's popularity despite its poor performance in clinical trials. Haller concludes with hope, showing how new experimental protocols might tease out the evidentiary basis for the placebo effect and establish a foundation for some reconciliation between EBM and CAM.

Alternative medicine --- Placebos (Medicine) --- Therapeutics --- Medicine and psychology

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Daniel Moerman presents an innovative and enlightening discussion of human reaction to the meaning of medical treatment. Traditionally, the effectiveness of medical treatments is attributed to specific elements, such as drugs or surgical procedures, but many things happen in medicine which simply cannot be accounted for in this way. The same drug can work differently when presented in different colours; drugs with widely advertised names can work better than the same drug without the name; inert drugs (placebos, dummies) often have dramatic effects on people (the 'placebo effect'); and effects can vary hugely among different European countries where the 'same' medical condition is understood differently, or has different meanings. This is true for surgery as well as for internal medicine. This lively 2002 book reviews and analyses these matters in lucid, straightforward prose, guiding the reader through a very complex body of literature, leaving nothing unexplained but avoiding any over-simplification.

Healing --- Placebos (Medicine). --- Hulpwetenschappen --- Psychological aspects. --- medische wetenschappen. --- Placebos (Medicine) --- Therapeutics --- Medicine and psychology --- Social Sciences --- Anthropology

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Placebo and Pain enhances readers' knowledge about placebo and nocebo effects, reexamines the methodology of clinical trials, and improves the therape

Pain. --- Placebos (Medicine) --- Pain --- Analgesia. --- Placebos --- Pain Management. --- Placebo Effect. --- Treatment. --- therapeutic use. --- Pain -- Treatment. --- Placebos (Medicine). --- Analgesia --- Therapeutics --- Effect Modifiers (Epidemiology) --- Pharmaceutical Preparations --- Anesthesia and Analgesia --- Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment --- Epidemiologic Factors --- Chemicals and Drugs --- Quality of Health Care --- Public Health --- Health Care Quality, Access, and Evaluation --- Environment and Public Health --- Health Care --- Placebo Effect --- Health & Biological Sciences --- Medicine --- Pharmacy, Therapeutics, & Pharmacology --- Pathology --- Treatment --- Medicine and psychology --- Pain Management

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Medicine and psychology. --- Hope --- Placebo (Medicine) --- Sick --- Mental healing. --- Mind and body. --- Placebos. --- Mental Healing. --- Emotions --- Behavioral medicine --- Psychology and medicine --- Psychology, Applied --- Sham Treatment --- Mind-Body Therapies --- Healing, Mental --- Religion --- Body and mind --- Body and soul (Philosophy) --- Human body --- Mind --- Mind-body connection --- Mind-body relations --- Mind-cure --- Somatopsychics --- Brain --- Dualism --- Philosophical anthropology --- Holistic medicine --- Mental healing --- Parousia (Philosophy) --- Phrenology --- Psychophysiology --- Self --- Absent treatment --- Health thoughts --- Psychic healing --- Alternative medicine --- Healing --- Parapsychology --- Mind and body --- Therapeutics, Suggestive --- Diseases --- Illness behavior --- Sick role --- Medicine and psychology --- Psychological aspects. --- Psychology. --- Psychological aspects --- Mind-Bdy Relations, Meetaphysical. --- Mind-Body Relations, Metaphysical. --- Placebos (Medicine)

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Due to the recent explosion of placebo research at many levels the Editors believe that a volume on Placebo would be a good addition to the Handbook of Experimental Pharmacology series. In particular, this volume will be built up on a meeting on Placebo which will be held in Tuebingen (Germany) in January 2013, and where the most prominent researchers in this field will present and exchange their ideas. The authors who will be invited to write chapters for this volume will be the very same speakers at this meeting, thus guaranteeing high standard and excellence in the topic that will be treated. The approach of the book is mainly pharmacological, including basic research and clinical trials, and the contents range from different medical conditions and systems, such as pain and the immune system, to different experimental approaches, like in vivo receptor binding and pharmacological/behavioral conditioning. Overall, the volume will give an idea of modern placebo research, of timely concepts in both experimental and clinical pharmacology, as well as of modern methods and tools in neuroscience.

Placebos (Medicine) --- Therapeutics --- Medicine and psychology --- Toxicology. --- Neurosciences. --- Medicine. --- Pain Medicine. --- Psychiatry. --- Psychopharmacology. --- Pharmacology/Toxicology. --- Medicine/Public Health, general. --- Behavioral pharmacology --- Drugs --- Chemotherapy --- Pharmacology --- Psychotropic drugs --- Mental health --- Psychology, Pathological --- Medicine --- Clinical sciences --- Medical profession --- Human biology --- Life sciences --- Medical sciences --- Pathology --- Physicians --- Neural sciences --- Neurological sciences --- Neuroscience --- Nervous system --- Chemicals --- Poisoning --- Poisons --- Psychotropic effects --- Toxicology --- Health Workforce --- Pharmacology. --- Pain medicine. --- Algiatry --- Drug effects --- Medical pharmacology --- Pharmacy --- Physiological effect