Placebo: Feeling Better, Getting Better, and the Problems of Mind and Body

Over its history, medicine has vacillated between acknowledging placebo effects as important and trying to overcome them. Placebos are controversial, in part, because they appear to challenge a biocentric view of the scientific basis of medical practice. At the very least, research should distinguis...

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Autor principal: Kihlstrom, John F.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: McGill University 2008
Materias:
Feature Review
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2582657/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19148324
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description Over its history, medicine has vacillated between acknowledging placebo effects as important and trying to overcome them. Placebos are controversial, in part, because they appear to challenge a biocentric view of the scientific basis of medical practice. At the very least, research should distinguish between the effects of placebos on subjective and objective endpoints. Theoretically, placebos are of interest because they underscore the other side of the mind-body problem: how mental states can affect physical conditions.
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spelling pubmed-25826572009-01-15 Placebo: Feeling Better, Getting Better, and the Problems of Mind and Body Kihlstrom, John F. Mcgill J Med Feature Review Over its history, medicine has vacillated between acknowledging placebo effects as important and trying to overcome them. Placebos are controversial, in part, because they appear to challenge a biocentric view of the scientific basis of medical practice. At the very least, research should distinguish between the effects of placebos on subjective and objective endpoints. Theoretically, placebos are of interest because they underscore the other side of the mind-body problem: how mental states can affect physical conditions. McGill University 2008-11 /pmc/articles/PMC2582657/ /pubmed/19148324 Text en Copyright © 2008 by MJM
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title_short Placebo: Feeling Better, Getting Better, and the Problems of Mind and Body
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