Placebos in medicine
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Placebos and placebo effects in medicine: historical overview.
some experimental intervention. Although the most frequently used placebo is the 'sugar pill' in drug trials, placebos can be and have been used for all kinds of interventions, ranging from placebo ultrasound in the treatment of pressure ulcers and placebo surgery in the treatment of osteoarthritis to sham traction in the treatment of low back pain and placebo oestrogen implants in the preventi...
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OBJECTIVE To provide the first quantitative data on the use of the term "placebo" in the 19th century. DESIGN Computer search of BMJ's archival database from January 1840 (the first issue) through December 1899 for uses of the words "placebo(s)." Grounded theory was used to categorise the implications of uses of the term. RESULTS 71 citations contained the term "placebo(s)." Of these, 22 (3...
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THE PLACEBO CHALLENGE Placebos are ubiquitous, counterintuitive, topical, and germane to medical science (1). Current scientific understanding about placebos, however, is sparse, fraught with debates and even explicit confusion (2-4). Whether one subscribes to placebo phobia or placebo mania (5), the domain of placebos draws on definitions, concepts, and paradigms that often baffle not just the...
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عنوان ژورنال: BMJ
سال: 2004
ISSN: 0959-8138,1756-1833
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.330.7481.45-b