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EVALUATION & THE HEALTH PROFESSIONS
Volume 25, Issue 4, Pages 399-409Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
DOI: 10.1177/0163278702238053
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dBecause the placebo effect seems to result from deception, it is often disparaged and despised. Rethinking this and realizing that these benefits flow largely from the meaning of medical encounters (and are far better understood as meaning responses); realizing that there need be no deception to elicit them and that they are often very desirable, engaging fundamental human biological pathways, puts the ethical dilemma in a new light. It seems unethical to avoid-to evade-coming to a full understanding of how meaning can so profoundly improve human well-being.
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