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lüll Reconsidering the placebo response from a broad anthropological perspective Thompson JJ; Ritenbaugh C; Nichter MCult Med Psychiatry 2009[Mar]; 33 (1): 112-52This paper considers how the full range of human experience may catalyze a placebo response. The placebo effect has been characterized as something to control in clinical research, something to cultivate in clinical practice and something present in all healing encounters. We examine domains in which the term 'placebo' is used in discourse: clinical research, clinical practice, media representations of treatment efficacy and lay interpretations of placebo--an underresearched topic. We briefly review major theoretical frameworks proposed to explain the placebo effect: classical conditioning, expectancy, the therapeutic relationship and sociocultural 'meaning.' As a corrective to what we see as an overemphasis on conscious cognitive approaches to understanding placebo, we reorient the discussion to argue that direct embodied experience may take precedence over meaning-making in the healing encounter. As an example, we examine the neurobiology of rehearsing or visualizing wellness as a mode of directly (performatively) producing an outcome often dismissed as a 'placebo response.' Given body/mind/emotional resonance, we suggest that the placebo response is an evolutionarily adaptive trait and part of healing mechanisms operating across many levels--from genetic and cellular to social and cultural.|*Anthropology, Cultural[MESH]|*Placebo Effect[MESH]|Humans[MESH]|Mass Media[MESH]|Models, Theoretical[MESH]|Neurobiology[MESH]|Practice Patterns, Physicians'[MESH]|Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic[MESH]|Review Literature as Topic[MESH] |