bioethics
Harnessing the Placebo? The Human Side of Medicine
“Placebos are the ghosts that haunt our house of biomedical objectivity, the creatures that rise up from the dark and expose the paradoxes and fissures in our own self-created definitions of the real and active factors in treatment”.1 So writes Harvard professor Anne Harrington, and today, the mysteries and contradictions generated by the placebo continue [...]
Bioethical Revolution: Changing Paradigms in Decision-making
Stem cells. What does this topic immediately bring to mind? Although for a select few hearing these words highlights a plethora of scientific knowledge or emotional overflow, for the wide majority of the population, newspaper headings and sound bites from various television news sources are summoned. This topic has undoubtedly evoked public debate and near [...]
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