Fomenting sickness: nocebo priming of residents about expected wind turbine health harms.

A nocebo effect hypothesis has been proposed to explain the varying spatio-temporal distribution of reported complaints by small minorities of exposed residents about noise and health effects said to be caused by wind farm turbines. The hypothesis requires that those complaining have been exposed to...

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Main Authors: Simon eChapman, Ketan eJoshi, Luke eFry
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2014-12-01
Series:Frontiers in Public Health
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpubh.2014.00279/full