Placebo in Controlled Clinical Trials (OPEN ACCESS)

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

 

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Preface
Coralia Adina Cotoraci

Introduction
Miroslav Radenković

Placebo Throughout History
Codruța Alina Popescu, Mihai Sebastian Armean

Placebo: History of Use; Placebo and Physiological Processes;
Psychological and Social Considerations
Ljiljana Cvorovic, Neda Mladenovic

Placebo in Clinical Trials: Current Standings and Ethical Challenges
Miroslav Radenković, Danijela Vučević, Milica Radosavljević,
Janko Samardžić, Tatjana Radosavljević

Identity, Biomedical Technology, and Placebo Effects
Veselin Mitrović

Neurophysiological Mechanisms of Placebo Effects
Dragan Hrnčić, Aleksandra Rašić-Marković

Is Clinical Equipoise Still a Relevant Concept?
Horațiu Alexandru Colosi

The Programmed Patient Informed Placebo Effect: A New Challenge
in the Treatment of Syncope and Orthostatic Hypotension
Branislav Milovanović, Nikola Marković, Vlado Đajić,
Marina Rastović, Milovan Bojić

Placebo and Artificial Intelligence in Clinical Trials in Dentistry
Jelena Roganović

Clinical Studies and Placebo: ‘Phase Ib/II Studies; Placebo and Phase III Studies; Placebo and Vulnerable Participants; Placebo and Methodological Quality; Placebo and Artificial Intelligence
Hafsa Benzzi

What Can We Learn About Placebo From Literary Examples?
Danijela Vučević, Miroslav Radenković, Milica Radosavljević,
Janko Samardžić, Igor Pantić, Jovana Paunović Pantić, Tatjana Radosavljević

Additional information

Title

Placebo in Controlled Clinical Trials

Editor

Miroslav Radenkovic

Preface

Coralia Adina Cotoraci   

eISBN (online)

978-973-664-993-6

Publication

2025

Pages

166