Trafficking in Cure and Harm: Placebos, Nocebos and the Curative Imaginary

This article tracks the traffic of placebos, nocebos and the effects or meaning-responses that they solicit in order to contribute to wide-ranging critiques of the curative imaginary. Moving through three realms of biomedicine (the clinic, the lab and the market), the article explores key contradict...

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Main Authors: Suze G. Berkhout, Ada S. Jaarsma
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The Ohio State University Libraries 2018-12-01
Series:Disability Studies Quarterly
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Online Access:http://dsq-sds.org/article/view/6369