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The Many Meanings of the Placebo Effect: Where They Came From, Why They Matter
Anne Harrington
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BioSocieties / Volume 1 / Issue 2 / June 2006

Published online by Cambridge University Press:

23 July 2016, pp. 181-193

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June 2006
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The placebo effect is variously vilified as a basis for unethical medical practice, dismissed as the ephemeral product of gullible imaginations, sanctioned as key to the clinical trials process, and romanticized as evidence of the mind’s quasi-miraculous power to heal the body. These many meanings of the placebo effect exist for a reason: they are products of multiple histories whose legacies continue to be upheld by various stakeholders in debates in which placebos and their effects figure today.