Placebos in 19th century medicine: A quantitative analysis of the BMJ

BMJ (Online)

Volumn 345, Issue 7888, 2012, Pages

  Raicek, Jacqueline E ^a,b   Stone, Bradley H ^a   Kaptchuk, Ted J ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PLACEBO;

ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CITATION ANALYSIS; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; GROUNDED THEORY; HOMEOPATHY; HUMAN; MEDICAL SOCIETY; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PLACEBO EFFECT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS;

HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HUMANS; PERIODICALS AS TOPIC; PLACEBOS; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC;

EID: 84872056489     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17561833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.e8326     Document Type: Article

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