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Enhancing the therapeutic respectability of placebos

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 February 2010

Jefferson M. Fish
Jefferson M. Fish
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Department of Psychology, St. John's University, Jamaica, N.Y. 11439
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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 6 , Issue 2 , June 1983 , pp. 291
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