Placebo: El triunfo de la mente sobre la materia en la medicina moderna

by Dylan Evans, Amado Diéguez (Translator)

Durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial, Harry Beecher, un anestesista estadounidense, vio que, a falta de morfina, una inyección de solución salina producía en los heridos el efecto de un anestésico. Este absorbente y desafiante libro propone una nueva teoría sobre el funcionamiento del placebo, su relación con las medicinas alternativas y la psicoterapia, sus dilemas éticos y nuestro concepto de salud y de enfermedad.

312 pages, Paperback

Published May 1, 2010

About the author

Dylan Evans is the founder of Projection Point, the global leader in risk intelligence solutions. He has written several popular science books, including Risk Intelligence: How to Live with Uncertainty (2012), Emotion: The Science of Sentiment (2001) and Placebo: The Belief Effect (2003), and in 2001 he was voted one of the twenty best young writers in Britain by the Independent on Sunday. He received a PhD in Philosophy from the London School of Economics in 2000, and has held academic appointments at King's College London, the University of Bath, the University of the West of England, and University College Cork, and the American University of Beirut.