Faith and the Placebo Effect: An Argument for Self-Healing - Hardcover

Kuby, Lolette

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1579830056 ISBN 13: 9781579830052

Publisher: Origin Press, 2003

Synopsis

In an inspired study of the unacknowledged power of the placebo, Lolette Kuby argues that the common denominator across all forms of treatments for illness is an innate self-healing capacity that medicine calls the placebo effect and that religion knows as faith healing.

About this title

From the Publisher:

In this ground-breaking book, author Lolette Kuby -- poet, cultural critic, and activist -- raises a prophetic voice against the madness of conventional medicine, offering a radical and passionate argument for self-healing through faith, based on the unacknowledged power of the placebo effect.

About the Author:

Lolette Kuby is the author of Out of Cleveland, An Uncommon Poet for the Common Man: A Study of Philip Larkin’s Poetry, and Writing Personals. She lives in Toronto, Ontario.

About this edition

• Publisher: Origin Press
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 1579830056
• ISBN 13: 9781579830052
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 323