Challenges of differential placebo effects in contemporary medicine: The example of brain stimulation
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DOI: 10.1002/ana.25387
Abstract: 'Differential placebo effects' is the concept that different types of placebos (e.g. inert pill versus sham device) may yield different magnitudes of placebo effects. This issue has been pushed into the spotlight by recent clinical… read more here.
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Might Only Theology Save Medicine? Some Ideas from Ramsey
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DOI: 10.1177/0953946816674152
Abstract: In The Anticipatory Corpse: Medicine, Power, and the Care of the Dying, Jeffrey Bishop argues that contemporary medicine has (among other things) reduced the patient from a ‘subject’ to an ‘object’. He extends this charge… read more here.
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Predictability in Contemporary Medicine
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DOI: 10.3389/fmed.2021.510421
Abstract: Medical practice is increasingly coming under the guidance of statistical-mathematical models that are, undoubtedly, valuable tools but are also only a partial representation of reality. Indeed, given that statistics may be more or less adequate,… read more here.
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