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Placebos as performance

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A friend has sent you the following article from PopMatters.com Marginal Utility: Placebos as performance by Rob Horning 29 June 2009 Paul Kedrosky links to this article by Harriet Hall at the Skeptic about the placebo effect. The upshot is that placebos don’t do anything physiological but instead shift a patient’s awareness of their own symptoms. In the article’s… Link: http://www.popmatters.com/pm/post/placebos-as-performance/ PopMatters Popular Voices, Cultural Matters http://www.popmatters.com/

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