The Wonder Pill / Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.).

It has finally been acknowledged that the placebo effect-historically seen as a distraction from "real" medical treatment-is a genuine phenomenon and a potential addition to the arsenal of modern medicine. In this classic program from the Scientific American Frontiers series, host Alan Alda discover...

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Uniform Title:Films on Demand.
Corporate Authors: Films for the Humanities & Sciences (Firm)
Infobase
Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.)
Other Authors: Alda, Alan, 1936-
Language:English
Published: New York, N.Y. : Infobase, [2009], ©2003.
Series:Films on Demand.
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Physical Description:1 online resource (60 min.) : sound, color, digital file.
Format: Electronic Video

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505 0 |a New Research on Placebos (1:30) -- Placebo Effect (1:36) -- One Treatment for All (2:21) -- Placebos of Yore (1:04) -- Placebos had a Place (2:18) -- Brainwaves Lift the Blues (1:07) -- Different Responses to Placebos (1:52) -- Changes in Placebo Patients (1:37) -- Multiple Pathways Toward Improvement (1:43) -- The Placebo Effect is Real (1:34) -- The Empathetic Doctor (3:05) -- The Cold HMO Doctor (1:58) -- Patient Expectations (1:42) -- Introduction to Cedric Bell (1:24) -- Symptoms of Parkinson's Disease (1:46) -- Placebos for Parkinson's (1:18) -- Placebo: Expectation of Benefit. (1:14) -- The Mind Controlling the Body (1:44) -- Snuffing the Sniffles (1:54) -- Placebo or Not (1:24) -- Cold Remedies (1:23) -- Placebo Cold Remedy (2:20) -- Psychological Benefit (1:01) -- Healing Rituals (0:56) -- Placebo Effect of Acupuncture (1:16) -- Carpel Tunnel Acupuncture Study (1:03) -- The Healing Power of Acupuncture (2:27) -- Real or Fake (1:00) -- Fooled by the Placebo (1:27) -- Healing Carpel Tunnel (1:17) -- Ritual Effect of Treatments (1:52) -- Studying Placebo Analgesics (1:13) -- Gathering Baseline Measures (1:11) -- Placebo Analgesia (1:46) -- Human Interaction and the Art of Medicine (0:32) 
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