An effect usually, but not necessarily, beneficial that is attributable to an expectation that the regimen will have an effect, i.e., the effect is due to the power of suggestion.
    

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Placebo : historie, biologi og effekt / Lars Ole Andersen [and others].

Histoire du placebo et de l'effet placebo / P. Mounier-Kuhn, J.F. Cier, J.P. Boissel.

Før placeboeffekten : indbildningskraftens virkning i 1800-tallets medicin / Lars Ole Andersen.

Placebo : theory, research and mechanisms / edited by Leonard White, Bernard Tursky, and Gary E. Schwartz ; foreword by Norman Sartorius.

The science of the placebo : toward an interdisciplinary research agenda / edited by Harry A. Guess [and others].

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Placebo : historie, biologi og effekt / Lars Ole Andersen [and others].

Histoire du placebo et de l'effet placebo / P. Mounier-Kuhn, J.F. Cier, J.P. Boissel.

Før placeboeffekten : indbildningskraftens virkning i 1800-tallets medicin / Lars Ole Andersen.

Placebo : theory, research and mechanisms / edited by Leonard White, Bernard Tursky, and Gary E. Schwartz ; foreword by Norman Sartorius.

The science of the placebo : toward an interdisciplinary research agenda / edited by Harry A. Guess [and others].