ERC Starting Grant · 2022
Medieval Placebo Effect: Hope and Belief in Healthcare in Christian Southern Europe 1100-1500
This project sets out to recover how hope and expectation for cure, belief, and trust configured late medieval medicine and the healing encounter. The therapeutic power of these sensibilities is recognized today by the modern clustering concept, placebo effect. This integrative project will identify the intellectual, social, and cultural forces in the medieval past that articulated and applied the idea that health may be improved by evoking certain sensibilities. In a triangular approach that examines ideas, practices, and organizing structures of healing activity, I analyze the medieval placebo effect as a paradigmatic attribute of the healing of the period. The project brings into…
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