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Should we be clinically exploiting the power of the placebo effect?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 November 2008

JA Oldham
Affiliation:
School of Nursing Studies, Coupland III Building, The University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, UK
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1996

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