Placebo

Title: Placebo
Creator: Bogduk, Nikolai
Relation: Interventional Spine: an Algorithmic Approach p. 203-205
Relation: http://shop.elsevier.com.au/product.jsp?isbn=9780721628721
Publisher: Saunders Elsevier
Resource Type: book chapter
Date: 2008
Description: When used as a noun, placebo means a treatment that lacks any specific therapeutic effect. In the case of a drug, a placebo would be an agent that lacks any pharmacological effect. In the case of a procedure, a placebo would be one that lacks any specific anatomical or physiological effect. Nevertheless, in other respects a placebo has all of the features of an intervention that should work. When used as an adjective, placebo occurs in two forms: the placebo effect, and the placebo response. Placebo effect is the presumed or perceived effect that a placebo has on an individual. Placebo response is what the individual reports after having been administered a placebo, and is ostensibly due to the placebo effect. Essentially, a placebo is not supposed to work. Any effect or response that it evokes is, therefore, paradoxical. The resultant paradox is difficult to handle in clinical practice. Consequently, placebo is a commonly misunderstood concept that is subject to abuse, misinterpretation, and myths.
Subject: placebo; therapeutic; drugs; treatment
Identifier: uon:6650
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/804545
Identifier: ISBN:9780721628721

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