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The placebo effect: An interdisciplinary exploration

Year: 1998

Type: article

Abstract: The clinical trial is one of the pinnacles of modern scientific medicine, but, as J. Rosser Matthews persuasively shows in his Quantification and the Quest for Medical Certainty, the union of statistics and medicine followed an extended, often stormy, courtship that lasted well over a century and in many ways was a shotgun wedding.Matthews' tale begins with Pierre-Charles-Alexandre Louis (1787 -1872), who pioneered a numerical method to evaluate

Source: Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences

DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1520-6696(199821)34:2<221::aid-jhbs31>3.0.co;2-u

Author: Mark D. Sullivan

Institution: University of Washington

Language: English

Topic: Pain Management and Placebo Effect

Subfield: Cognitive Neuroscience

Field: Neuroscience

Domain: Life Sciences

Open Access status: bronze

OpenAlex ID: W4240973054

FWCI: 5.311

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