Cultural Variations in the Placebo Effect: Ulcers, Anxiety, and Blood Pressure
- 1 March 2000
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in Medical Anthropology Quarterly
- Vol. 14 (1) , 51-72
- https://doi.org/10.1525/maq.2000.14.1.51
Abstract
An analysis of the control groups in double‐blind trials of medicines demonstrates broad variation—from 0 to 100 percent—in placebo effectiveness rates for the same treatment for the same condition. ...Keywords
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