Saturday, March 20, 2021 at 2:30pm EST
Panacea or Poison: Placebos and Nocebos in Modern Medicine
Placebos “work” for quite a few medical problems. But how? And what is the work they do?
What one thinks a medicine is capable of, one’s idea of that medicine, may affect us in the way “proper” medicines do. This implies that, in observing the work of a placebo we are watching an idea affect biology, the mind moving the body.… read more »
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Saturday, March 20, 2021 at 2:30pm EST
Panacea or Poison: Placebos and Nocebos in Modern Medicine
Placebos “work” for quite a few medical problems. But how? And what is the work they do?
What one thinks a medicine is capable of, one’s idea of that medicine, may affect us in the way “proper” medicines do. This implies that, in observing the work of a placebo we are watching an idea affect biology, the mind moving the body.… read more »