Placebo Talks
Modern perspectives on placebos in society
Edited by Amir Raz and Cory Harris
Author Information
Amir Raz, Canada Research Chair, Faculty of Medicine, McGill University, Canada,Cory Harris, Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, University of Ottawa, Canada
Professor Raz earned his Ph.D. in Brain Science from the Interdisciplinary Center for Computational Neuroscience at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem under the supervision of the late Professor Shlomo Bentin. He then went on to a post-doctoral fellowship with Professor Michael Posner at the Weill Medical College of Cornell University, where he took on a faculty position thereafter. He then joined the faculty at Columbia University in the City of New York and later became the Canada Research Chair at McGill University in Montreal, Canada.
Cory Harris became interested in placebo effects while studying traditional medicines in collaboration with First Nations Elders and Healers in Quebec, Canada. While their research on herbal medicine revealed a wealth of pharmacological activity, the therapeutic value of traditional healing extended far beyond bioactive molecules. Cory earned his Ph.D. in Biology and Biochemistry before completing post-doctoral fellowships at McGill University's Centre for Indigenous Peoples Nutrition and the Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research in Montreal. In 2013, Cory joined the Department of Biology at the University of Ottawa, where his research continues to explore Indigenous and alternative medicine using an interdisciplinary lens.
Contributors:
Natasha Campbell, Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital, Clinical Research Unit, Canada
Veronica de Jong, Department of Psychology, McGill University
Bennett Foddy, Oxford Martin School's Institute for Science and Ethics
Ian Gold, Department of Philosophy, McGill University, Canada
Anne Harrington, Department of the History of Science at Harvard University, USA
Cory S. Harris, Centre for Indigenous Peoples' Nutrition and Environment, School of Dietetics and Human Nutrition, McGill University Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research at the Jewish General Hospital of Montreal, Canada
Timothy Johns, Centre for Indigenous Peoples' Nutrition and Environment, School of Dietetics and Human Nutrition, McGill University, Canada
Veronica de Jong, Department of Psychology, McGill University, Canada
Stewart Justman, The Liberal Studies Program, University of Montana, USA
Laurence Kirmayer, Division of Social & Transcultural Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, McGill University, Canada
Irving Kirsch, Program in Placebo Studies, Harvard Medical School, USA
Elisabeth Loftus, Department of Psychology and Social Behvahior, Criminology, Law and Society, and Cognitive Sciences University of California, Irvine, USA
Daniel Moerman, Department of Behavioral Sciences, University of Michigan-Dearborn, USA
Michael Orsini, School of Political Studies, University of Ottawa, Canada
Marie Prévost, Grenoble Applied Economy Laboratory (GAEL - INRA), Laboratory of Psychology and NeuroCognition (LPNC), Université Pierre Mendès, France
Amir Raz, Departments of Psychiatry, Neurology and Neurosurgery, and Psychology, McGill University, Canada and Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research at the Jewish General Hospital of Montreal, Canada
Paul Saurette, School of Political Studies, University of Ottawa, Canada
Edward Shorter, Jason A. Hannah Professor of the History of Medicine / Professor of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Canada
Steve Silberman, Investigative reporter (Wired, PLoS) and author
Melanie Takarangi, School of Psychology, Flinders University, Australia
