• DOI:10.1007/BF01564309
Corpus ID: 2733947

Semantics of the placebo

@article{Shapiro2005SemanticsOT,
  title={Semantics of the placebo},
  author={A. Shapiro},
  journal={Psychiatric Quarterly},
  year={2005},
  volume={42},
  pages={653-695}
}

A. Shapiro

Published 2005

Psychology, Medicine

Psychiatric Quarterly

SummaryWith increased interest in the placebo effect and clinical methodology, definitions of the placebo have proliferated. But there is little agreement among lexicographers, historians, clinicians, and researchers about how to define this word.Derivations of the wordplacebo from the Hebrew and Latin and its use in the Bible and literature were reviewed. Historical inaccuracies in classical references to the placebo's origin, history, and development were corrected. An explanation was given… CONTINUE READING

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