Clinical use of placebo treatments may undermine the trust of patients: a response to Gold and Lichtenberg

There is an obvious need for a critical discussion of the concepts ‘placebo’ and ‘placebo effect’. In a recent paper on the use of placebos in clinical medicine, Gold and Lichtenberg note the conceptual difficulties but use the terminology in a confused way throughout their paper. In our response, w...

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Authors: Louhiala, Pekka (Author) ; Hemilä, Harri (Author) ; Puustinen, Raimo (Author)
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Language:English
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Published: BMJ Publ. 2014
In: Journal of medical ethics
Year: 2014, Volume: 40, Issue: 11, Pages: 787-788
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