PHIL 1740 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Informed Consent, Electronic Body Music, Antibiotics
19 Apr 2016
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What makes an intervention count as a placebo is its lack of specific pharmacological efficacy for a patient"s condition (pg. 222: pure (doesn"t change anything about physiology examples would be sugar pill or injection of saline; a substance that makes no change, impure (ex. The placebo effect is the therapeutic benefit produced by the context of the clinical encounter, including the ritual of treatment, rather than by the efficacy of an interventional agent (pg. Unprofessional: superiority to placebo is minimal standard for treatments according to ebm. There are results that show that there"s a strong placebo effect around acupuncture: doesn"t put needles in pressure points but just randomly. People have same effect (everything else is the same context, relationships, etc. ) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) Choose 8 of 10 possible questions: 3 will come from the 5 practice questions, some will come from old midterm review. Try to use own words not author"s words.
