Surgeons and shamans: The placebo value of ritual

Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research

Volumn 450, Issue , 2006, Pages 249-254

  Green, Stuart A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PLACEBO;

ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; ANALGESIA; ARTICLE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DIET RESTRICTION; DYNAMICS; HUMAN; INGESTION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PHLEBOTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RITUAL; SPIRITUAL HEALING; SURGEON; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; VAPOR; SUGGESTION; SURGERY; SYMBOLISM;

BLOODLETTING; CEREMONIAL BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; PLACEBOS; SHAMANISM; SUGGESTION; SURGERY; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, OPERATIVE;

EID: 33748440224     PISSN: 0009921X     EISSN: 15281132     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.blo.0000224044.69592.65     Document Type: Article

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