The Nocebo Effect

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The Nocebo Effect

• By Stephanie Wang

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What is it?

• The Placebo Effect
• Placebo I shall please
• Nocebo I shall harm
• Expectations
• Experiences
• Anxiety and Depression

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Eighty Years Ago

• Witch doctor
• Near death to hospital
• Lizard Eggs
• One week later

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Forty Years Ago

• Liver cancer
• Six months to live
• Autopsy
• Belief

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Today

• Side effects
• High risk
• Clinical trials
• Anticipatory nausea
• Observations

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Impacts

• Doctors
• Side Effects
• Operations
• Belief can cure or kill a person

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Bibliography

• "Definition of Nocebo." Nocebo Definition. 14
  Mar. 2004. MedicineNet.com. 26 Sep. 2009
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• Pilcher, Helen. "Beware Witch Doctors."
• NewScientist 16 May 2009 30-33.