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| Correlation between medicine and culture by illumination on the placebo effect |
| Correlation between medicine and culture by illumination on the placebo effect. Philosophy of Medicine(The Journal of the Korean association for philosophy of medicine) Nr.2(2006), 19-34, in Korean Abstract: This paper presents the correlation between medicine and culture by illumination on the placebo effect. The Placebo phenomenon is of course not the domain of biomedicine, but actually gives the practical effects in medicine. I termed the social collectiveness of individual placebo effects ‘cultural synergism’. The placebo as psychological elements of the cultural synergism entails the following manifolds of placebo-spectrum whether for positive or for negative: i)placebo test as a scientific method, ii)placebo by authority, iii)placebo by image, iv)placebo by folklore and v)placebo by capital. I conclude my analysis of the placebo-spectrum shall demonstrate the cultural synergism of medicine. Key Words: Placebo effect, CAM(Complementary and Alternative Medicine), Scientific Skepticism, STS(Science, Technology and Society) |