[Sci-tech-public] Fwd: Speaker on Placebo Effect

[Deborah Fairchild]

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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 
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>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
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>     Catherine Kerr, PhD
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>     Instructor in General Medicine, Harvard Medical School
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>Interdisciplinary Network on Healing
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>Funded by the Provost’s Fund for Interfaculty Collaboration, Harvard 
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>SEMINAR ON HEALING, SCIENCE AND CULTURE
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>Tuesday, February 8, 4-6pm
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>“Placebo, Natural History, Measurement, Error and Bias”
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>Asborn Hrobjartsson, Ph.D
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>Nordic Cochrane Center, Copenhagen.
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>Sponsored by 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.
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>presentation held at Osher Institute, Landmark Center, Suite 22a, 401 Park 
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>For more information, call the Osher Institute, 617-384-8551
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Deborah L. Fairchild
Administrative Officer
Program in Science, Technology and Society
E51-185C
dlfair at mit.edu
Phone:  (617) 253-4084
Fax:    (617) 258-8118 
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