Mystery of the Placebo / Le Mystère du placebo [French]

by Patrick Lemoine

How many sick people know that the drugs which are prescribed by their doctors are sometimes totally devoid of active principles? These inactive products - placebos - which have no proven pharmalogical effect are sometimes extremely efficient. Sometimes they are as efficient as classical treatments, or even better since there are no side effects. Should medicine renounce all scientific claims? Some inert substances cure, and authentic medicine have...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: French
• ISBN: 2738103472
• ISBN13: 9782738103475
• Release Date: February 1996
• Publisher: Odile Jacob
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"