The Placebo Effect

Beginning with a review of the role of placebos in the history of medicine, this book investigates the current surge of interest in placebos, and probes the methodological difficulties of saying scientifically just what placebos can and cannot do.

First sentence: In the clinic, it has been long acknowledged that "sham" treatments like sugar pills or injections with saline solution have the capacity to rally healing processes, sometimes of a dramatic nature, within patients.

Year

1997

Language

English

Publisher

Harvard University Press

Editions

2

Pages

272

ISBN

9780674669864

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