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Subject: Speaker on Placebo Effect<br>
Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2005 17:46:48 -0500<br>
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From: "Kerr, Catherine E."
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Hello. Please circulate this notice for a speaker at our Seminar on
Healing, Science and Culture, to be held at the Osher Institute
(<?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns =
"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" />Landmark
Building). Asborn Hrobjartsson, author of important NEJM article
entitled: “Is the Placebo Powerless? - An Analysis of Clinical Trials
Comparing Placebo with No Treatment,” will be speaking. This event is
sponsored by Harvard University Provost Office, Interfaculty Initiative
on Healing<br><br>
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Thanks. <br><br>
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Catherine Kerr, PhD<br><br>
Instructor in General Medicine, Harvard Medical
School<br><br>
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<div align="center">Interdisciplinary Network on Healing<br>
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<div align="center"><i>Funded by the Provost’s Fund for Interfaculty
Collaboration, Harvard University<br>
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<div align="center"><b>SEMINAR ON HEALING, SCIENCE AND CULTURE<br>
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<div align="center">Tuesday, February 8, 4-6pm<br>
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<div align="center">“Placebo, Natural History, Measurement, Error and
Bias”<br>
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<div align="center">Asborn Hrobjartsson, Ph.D<br>
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<div align="center">Nordic Cochrane Center, Copenhagen.<br>
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<b>Sponsored by</b> the Osher Institute, Division for Research and
Education in Complementary and Integrative Medicine Specialties, and the
Department of Social Medicine of Harvard Medical School and the Program
in Medical Anthropology, Department of Anthropology, Harvard
University.<br><br>
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<div align="center"><b><?xml:namespace prefix = v ns =
"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" />This presentation held at
Osher Institute, Landmark Center, Suite 22a, 401 Park Drive, Boston<br>
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<div align="center">For more information, call the Osher Institute,
617-384-8551<br>
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Deborah L. Fairchild<br>
Administrative Officer<br>
Program in Science, Technology and Society<br>
E51-185C<br>
dlfair@mit.edu<br>
Phone:<x-tab> </x-tab>(617) 253-4084<br>
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