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Short Communication - (2018) Volume 2, Issue 1
On the History of the Placebo Effect: A Brief Outline
Abstract
The placebo effect (and maybe still more the nocebo effect) is one of the greatest challenges for academic medicine. There are numerous examples for their effectiveness regarding the literature of medical history. Let us consider the most extreme situations: Patients suffering from a disease with an infest prognosis may recover unexpectedly due to the placebo effect of a special manipulation or belief sometimes called 'miraculous healing' (of course, academic medicine must not rely on it), on the other hand, healthy people may be killed by the nocebo effect of a frightening imagination e.g. a voodoo spell well-known in ethnology.
Citation:
Schott H (2018) On the History of the Placebo Effect: A Brief Outline. J Clin Med Sci 2: 103.
Copyright:
© 2018 Schott H. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.