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The powerful placebo : from ancient priest to modern physician /
Until this century, most medications prescribed by physicians were pharmacologically inert, if not harmful. That is, physicians were prescribing placebos or worse without knowing it. In a sense, then, the history of medical treatment until relatively recently is the history of the placebo effect. Ba...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Baltimore :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
1997.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. The Placebo Effect in Medical History
- 2. The Semantics of the Placebo
- 3. Fraud, Faith, and Fads
- 4. The Placebo Effect in the Twentieth Century
- 5. Psychiatry and Other Psychotherapies
- 6. The History of Clinical Trials
- 7. The History of the Double-Blind Procedure
- 8. Ethical Controversies about the Use of Placebos, the Double Blind, and Controlled Clinical Trials
- 9. How Blind Is Blind?
- 10. Predicting Placebo Response
- 11. Summary and Conclusions.