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.

המשפט הראשון: 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.

שנה

1997

שפה

English

הוצאה

Harvard University Press

מהדורות

2

עמודים

272

ISBN

9780674669864

מקור הנתונים: Wikidata