Scientific tools, fake treatments, or triggers for psychological healing: How clinical trial participants conceptualise placebos
- 1 March 2012
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Elsevier in Social Science & Medicine
- Vol. 74 (5) , 767-774
Abstract
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Funding Information
- Arthritis Research UK (18099)
- scientific exchange fellowship
- NIH
- NCCAM (#K24 AT004095, R01 AT001414, R01 AT004662, R01 AT005280, R01 AT006364, P01AT006663)
- NIH NCCAM (#K01 AT004916)
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