Nocebo
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In its original application, "nocebo" had a very specific meaning in the medical domains of pharmacology, nosology, and etiology.
It was a subject-oriented adjective that was used to label the harmful, unpleasant, or undesirable reactions (or responses) that a subject manifested (thus, "nocebo reactions" or "nocebo responses") as a result of administering an inert dummy drug or placebo, where these responses had not been chemically generated, and were entirely due to the subject's pessimistic belief and expectation that the inert drug would produce harmful, injurious, unpleasant, or undesirable consequences.
In these cases, there is no "real" drug involved, but the actual harmful, unpleasant or undesirable physiological, behavioural, emotional, and/or cognitive consequences of the administration of the inert drug are very real.
See also
- Adverse effect (medicine)
- Anthropology
- Autosuggestion
- Belief
- Charm
- Clinical trial
- Contraindication
- Culture-specific syndrome
- Curse
- Drug
- Efficacy
- Electrosensitivity
- Evil eye
- Expectation
- Hypnotic susceptibility
- Iatrogenesis
- Intention
- Malice (legal term)
- Medical anthropology
- Medication
- Miracle
- Observer-expectancy effect
- Pessimism
- Pharmacology
- Placebo
- Post hoc ergo propter hoc
- Psychosomatic illness
- Psychophysiology
- Purpose
- Scientific control
- Self-fulfilling prophecy
- Sociogenic illness
- Spell (paranormal)
- Stigmata
- Subject-expectancy effect
- Suggestibility
- Suggestion
- The Mad Gasser of Mattoon
- Therapeutic effect
- Thomas theorem
- Unintended consequence
- Vasovagal episode
