Surgery, The Ultimate Placebo (häftad)
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Häftad (Paperback / softback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
304
Utgivningsdatum
2016-03-01
Förlag
NewSouth Publishing
Illustrationer
Black & white illustrations
Dimensioner
208 x 135 x 25 mm
Vikt
318 g
Antal komponenter
1
Komponenter
141:B&W 5.5 x 8.25 in or 210 x 140 mm Perfect Bound on Creme w/Gloss Lam
ISBN
9781742234571

Surgery, The Ultimate Placebo

A surgeon cuts through the evidence

av Ian Harris
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Häftad,  Engelska, 2016-03-01
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A senior surgeon suggests that many commonly performed operations are not necessary and that any benefits they offer are a placebo. For many complaints and conditions the benefits from surgery are lower, and the risks higher, than you or your surgeon think. In this book you will see how commonly performed operations can be found to be useless or even harmful when properly evaluated. Of course no surgeon is recommending invasive surgery in bad faith, but Ian Harris argues that the evidence for the success for many common operations, including knee arthroscopies, back fusion or cardiac stenting, become current accepted practice without full examination of the evidence. The placebo effect may be real, but is it worth the recovery time, expense and discomfort?
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Professor Ian Harris AM is a senior orthopaedic surgeon who works at Liverpool, St George, St George Private and Sutherland Hospitals in Sydney. His academic affiliation is with UNSW, South Western Sydney Clinical School at Liverpool Hospital, in Sydney, Austrailia. He has a PhD from the University of Sydney on surgical outcomes. He has published more than 100 peer-reviewed articles in leading journals.

Innehållsförteckning

1 the placebo effect 17

what is the placebo effect and how

does it work?

2 the science of medicine – or lack of it 36

what makes ‘good’ evidence?

3 building the perfect placebo 68

what makes a good placebo?

4 putting surgery to the (placebo) test 80

examples of studies using sham surgery

5 the surgical scrap heap 113

operations that have faded away due to a lack of effectiveness

6 today’s placebo surgeries 128

current surgical procedures under question

7 why do we still do it? 194

reasons behind the persistence of surgery

that is not effective

8 surgery has a placebo effect – so what? 235

the case against using the placebo effect

9 what can we do about it? 249

as patients, doctors, researchers, funders and as a society

references 274

acknowledgements 292

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