Placebo: Mind over Matter in Modern Medicine
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Dylan Evans is an academic, philosopher and journalist. He has written several popular science books and has been described in The Times as 'the sort of polymath who makes you wonder what you've been doing with your brain.' He has written widely on psychology, and is the author of The Utopia Experiment - the story of his experiment in post-apocalyptic living in the Scottish Highlands. He was born in Bristol and now lives in Guatemala.
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