EN 1002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Great North Eastern Railway, Human Genome Project
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It could be negative or positive: the effect is focused on the relationship of the mind & body. Placebo effect is due to a persons expectation. If person expect pill to do something, them mind will think it has similar effect on body. Ethics of placebos: medicine that doesn"t have active drug ingredient but still a therapeutic effect, there are no ethical problems with using placebos in clinical trials, assuming participants have been properly informed & given consent samsung c460. Series (usb001: doctors is deceives patient by prescribing placebo. It is a violation of patients right to be honestly and fully be informed about treatment : a doctors only concern is the patients well being. However, that defeats its purpose and thus for that reason cannot be used: outside the setting of clinical trials, there"s not justification for the use of placebos. Its a violation of patient autonomy & informed consent.
