76: Mass Hysteria: The Dancing Plague - a podcast by The Sci Guys

from 2020-09-28T04:00

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Our Patrons chose Mass Hysteria as the episode topic this week, so we’re talking about The Dancing Plague! In 1518 a French town was overcome with a contagious conclusion to dance til they dropped... 



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References and Further Reading 


  1. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3536509/

  2. https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/history-quackery/history-hysteria

  3. https://www.health.harvard.edu/newsletter_article/The_nocebo_response

  4. https://www.health.harvard.edu/mental-health/the-power-of-the-placebo-effect

  5. https://www.britannica.com/science/psychosomatic-disorder

  6. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3480686/

  7. https://www.history.com/news/what-was-the-dancing-plague-of-1518

  8. https://www.britannica.com/event/dancing-plague-of-1518

  9. https://journals.lww.com/epidem/FullText/2010/09000/Frequency_and_Predictors_of_Mass_Psychogenic.31.aspx





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