Annoni Marco, Blease Charlotte
Perspect Biol Med. 2018;61(3):379-387. doi: 10.1353/pbm.2018.0050.
In this article we propose a critical reassessment of Daniel Moerman's "meaning response." First, we reconstruct and criticize Moerman's original proposal of introducing the "meaning response" as a way of clarifying some terminological and conceptual issues in the placebo debate. Next we evaluate the criticisms that Moerman's proposal is epistemically moot since other existing and more empirically grounded models already account for all the phenomena that fall under the concept of the "meaning response." We conclude that Moerman's original proposal is inherently problematic and that, in order to be instrumentally useful in the future, the meaning response must be reconceived so that it may finally support, rather than oppose, other theoretical and empirical lines of research currently ongoing in the field of placebo studies.
在本文中，我们提议对丹尼尔·莫尔曼的“意义反应”进行批判性的重新评估。首先，我们重构并批评了莫尔曼最初提出的引入“意义反应”的提议，该提议旨在厘清安慰剂辩论中的一些术语和概念问题。接下来，我们评估了针对莫尔曼提议的批评，即由于其他现有的、更基于实证的模型已经解释了属于“意义反应”概念范畴内的所有现象，所以该提议在认识论上毫无意义。我们得出的结论是，莫尔曼的最初提议本身存在问题，并且为了在未来具有实用价值，必须重新构想意义反应，以便它最终能够支持而非反对目前安慰剂研究领域中正在进行的其他理论和实证研究方向。
