Books

Books about placebo research and related fields:

Colloca, L., Noel, J., Franklin, P. D. & Seneviratne, C. (2023).
Placebo Effects Through the Lens of Translational Research. Oxford University Press.
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/placebo-effects-through-the-lens-of-translational-research-9780197645444?cc=us&lang=en&

Howick, J. (2023).
The Power of Placebos – How the Science of Placebos and Nocebos Can Improve Health Care. Johns Hopkins University Press.
https://www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/12830/power-placebos

Ho, D. (2023).
What Placebos Teach Us about Health and Care: A Philosopher Pops a Pill (Elements in Bioethics and Neuroethics). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/9781009085496
Free download until Oct 11th, 2023: https://www.cambridge.org/core/elements/what-placebos-teach-us-about-health-and-care/724D0A7BDBEECED1A2AD78C098AAE262

Yamashita, H., Inukai, H. & Kodama, K. (2021).
Manga Introduction to Placebo Effects based on Evidence. Medicus Shuppan, Japan.
Free reading of chapters 1 and 11 available at: https://medica.tameshiyo.me/9784840475792

Pekka, L. (2020).
Placebo Effects: The Meaning of Care in Medicine (Vol. 1): Springer.

Steinkopf, L. (2018)
Die andere Hälfte der Heilung. München: Mosaik Verlag.

Howick, J. (2017)
Doctor You: Revealing the science of self-healing. London: Hodder & Stoughton Ltd.

Harris, I. (2016).
Surgery, The Ultimate Placebo: A surgeon cuts through the evidence. Sydney: NewSouth Publishing.

Vance, E. (2016)
Suggestible you: the curious science of your brain’s ability to deceive, transform, and heal. Washington, D.C.: National Geographic.

Evers, A. W. M., Peerdeman, K. J., Bartels, D. J. P., & van Laarhoven, A. I. M. (2016)
Placebo and Nocebo Effects on Itch: Methodological and Clinical Implications. In Misery, L., Ständer, S (eds). Pruritus: second edition (pp. 103-110).

Trusz, S., Babel, P. (2016)
Interpersonal and intrapersonal expectancies. New York, NY: Routledge.

Benedetti, F. (2014)
Placebo Effects: Understanding the mechanisms in health and disease. Second Edition. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.

Benedetti, F., Enck, P., Frisaldi, E. Schedlowski, M. (2014)
Placebo. Handbook of Experimental Pharmacology 225. Heidelberg: Springer Verlag Berlin.

Justman, S. (2014)
The Nocebo Effect: Overdiagnosis and Its Costs. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan.

Brown, W.A. (2013)
The Placebo Effect in Clinical Practice. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.

Haselgrove, M., Hogarth, L. (2012)
Clinical Application of Learning Theory. New York, NY. Psychology Press.

Benedetti, F. (2011)
The Patient’s Brain. The Neuroscience behind the doctor-patient relationship. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.

Thompson, W.G. (2005)
The Placebo Effect and Health. Combining Science and Compassionate Care. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books.

Gòrski, A. and Spier, R. (2004)
Placebos: Ethics and Health Care Research. A Special Issue of Science and Engineering Ethics: 10(1). Danvers, MA: Opragen Publications.

Harrington, A. (1997)
The Placebo Effect. An Interdisciplinary Exploration. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.