Placebos Hall Kathryn T.
Placebos Hall Kathryn T. The biological power of the placebo effect.The power of placebos to ameliorate symptoms has been with us for centuries. In some clinical trials with placebos as controls,…
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Placebos Hall Kathryn T.
The biological power of the placebo effect.The power of placebos to ameliorate symptoms has been with us for centuries. In some clinical trials with placebos as controls, inert or sham replicas of active pharmaceutical drugs and even sham surgeries have been found to be as beneficial as the intervention being tested. Western medicine today is finding it increasingly difficult to ignore the efficacy of placebos.
She considers the ways that In this volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series, Kathryn Hall examines the power of placebos, showing how their effects can influence our clinical trials, clinical encounters and, collectively, Hall argues, our public health.Hall, who has studied the placebo effect for years, reviews the history of the placebo in medicine, tracing its evolution from quackery and patent medicine to its use as a control in clinical trials.
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