HSCI 140 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Acceptable Daily Intake, Dietary Supplement, Biomedical Model
3 Feb 2016
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Placebo over time can get addicted: acts on symptoms. Take drug is it side effect or placebo: always have placebo response, works better, depends on the drug. Placebo response will increase effect on symptoms: can"t know which experiment as you need evidence from drug. Doctor can"t prescribe placebo to patient without telling them: must be ethnical to the person. Some use cam and aren"t honest about it: just taking people"s money, placebo is cheap, person feels better. People believe in it despite the fact that there is no evidence. Alternative medical system developed in germany more than 200 years ago. 2 unconventional theories: like cures like , law of minimum does . In 2007 nhis (usa) practitioners: 5 million adults and 1 million children used homeopathy in the previous year, . 9 billion for homeopathic medicine and million visits to homeopathic. Homeopathy treatment are individualized or tailored to each person.
