2005/03/01 by Franklin G. Miller · 1 citation
Neuroscience · Medicine · Psychology · #Pain Management and Placebo Effect #Empathy and Medical Education #Complementary and Alternative Medicine Studies #Placebo #Faith #Phenomenon #Value (mathematics) #Alternative medicine #Medicine #Epistemology #Psychoanalysis #Philosophy #Psychology #Environmental ethics #Pathology
paper · doi:10.1353/pbm.2005.0059
openalex publication_date 2005/03/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/05/21
Long considered a fact of medicine and of clinical investigation, the placebo effect has recently been challenged. The thought of the great American psychologist and philosopher William James, particularly his understanding of the practical value of faith, helps to illuminate the nature of the placebo effect and the implications of this puzzling phenomenon for understanding healing and the practice of medicine.