Etichetă: bioethics

Placebo in Controlled Clinical Trials

Editor: Miroslav Radenkovic

Preface: Coralia Adina Cotoraci     

Book description: What does it mean to heal when he mind and body respond to belief itself? Placebo in Controlled Clinical Trials explores this profound question trough a multidisciplinary lens, bring together insights from medicine, philosophy, neuroscience, ethics, and humanities. From the historical mechanisms that underpin placebo effects, this volume examines how faith in treatment shapes outcomes – and how modern science grapples with that paradox.

Contributors address the ethical challenges of placebo use in contemporary research, the role of identify and biomedical technology in shaping patient response, and the emerging influence of artificial intelligence in clinical trial design.

eISBN: 978-973-664-993-6

Publication: 2025