Can your mind make you sick? Carol Tavris dissects the “nocebo effect”—how negative expectations conjure real symptoms—separating genuinely startling science from anecdote and hype.
A review of This Book May Cause Side Effects: Why Our Minds Are Making Us Sick by Helen Pilcher.
In the early years of Viagra, “the little blue pill” that generated such excitement about its sexual effects on men, I read an account by a woman who dec... [9022 chars]