“Maybe I Made Up the Whole Thing”: Placebos and Patients’ Experiences in a Randomized Controlled Trial - Kaptchuk, Ted J.; Shaw, Jessica; Kerr, Catherine E.; Conboy, Lisa A.; Kelley, John M.; Csordas, Thomas J.; Lembo, Anthony J.; Jacobson, Eric E. (Culture, medicine and psychiatry, 2009)
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