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See also the Medicine Through Time super-bundle.

From Patrick Kelly’s outstanding History of Medicine series. Please ensure you can access the film before getting this resource.

The film covers the history of placebos: Roman funerals, Dr. William Smellie, Dr. William Cullen, Mesmerism, Perkins Tractors, John Haygarth’s “Of The Imagination”; patulin trials, Dr. Henry Beecher. Placebo and pain, testing vs. Naloxone. Opioid and dopamine pathways. Measurement of pain by pain-scales vs. FMRI scans. The nocebo effect – Dr. Harold Diehl. The hazards of Informed Consent, and Contextualized Informed Consent. Non-deceptive placebos. A thorough explanation of the science of testing efficacy, including blind testing, regression to the mean. Complex ideas explained via excellent graphs.

Find the film by searching YouTube’s Patrick Kelly channel for “The Story of the Placebo Effect"

17 questions for the 21 min film. Differentiated: both versions look similar, but “B” version has subtle clues. Excellent subtitles: scripted, not auto-generated brainrot. Answer sheet. Very easy to mark. .doc & .pdf for all files. Link to film on all sheets.

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