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Ted Jack Kaptchuk

Professor of Medicine
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Ted J. Kaptchuk is a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and director of the Harvard-wide Program in Placebo Studies and the Therapeutic Encounter (PiPS) at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, Massachusetts.  He is also a professor of Global Health and Social Medicine.  

For more information, see his personal website.

Affiliation:

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

Address: 
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
330 Brookline Avenue
Boston, MA 02215

As a leading figure in placebo studies, a scholar of East Asian medicine, and an academic authority on medical pluralism, Professor Kaptchuk's career has spanned multiple disciplines, drawing upon concepts, research designs and analytical methods from the humanities and basic and clinical and social sciences.

What rheumatologists in the United States think of complementary and alternative medicine: results of a national survey.
Authors: Authors: Manek NJ, Crowson CS, Ottenberg AL, Curlin FA, Kaptchuk TJ, Tilburt JC.
BMC Complement Altern Med
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The need to act a little more 'scientific': biomedical researchers investigating complementary and alternative medicine.
Authors: Authors: Polich G, Dole C, Kaptchuk TJ.
Sociol Health Illn
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Placebo controls, exorcisms, and the devil.
Authors: Authors: Kaptchuk TJ, Kerr CE, Zanger A.
Lancet
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Patient and practitioner influences on the placebo effect in irritable bowel syndrome.
Authors: Authors: Kelley JM, Lembo AJ, Ablon JS, Villanueva JJ, Conboy LA, Levy R, Marci CD, Kerr CE, Kirsch I, Jacobson EE, Riess H, Kaptchuk TJ.
Psychosom Med
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An fMRI study on the interaction and dissociation between expectation of pain relief and acupuncture treatment.
Authors: Authors: Kong J, Kaptchuk TJ, Polich G, Kirsch I, Vangel M, Zyloney C, Rosen B, Gollub RL.
Neuroimage
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"Maybe I made up the whole thing": placebos and patients' experiences in a randomized controlled trial.
Authors: Authors: Kaptchuk TJ, Shaw J, Kerr CE, Conboy LA, Kelley JM, Csordas TJ, Lembo AJ, Jacobson EE.
Cult Med Psychiatry
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Religion, clinicians, and the integration of complementary and alternative medicines.
Authors: Authors: Curlin FA, Rasinski KA, Kaptchuk TJ, Emanuel EJ, Miller FG, Tilburt JC.
J Altern Complement Med
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Expectancy and treatment interactions: a dissociation between acupuncture analgesia and expectancy evoked placebo analgesia.
Authors: Authors: Kong J, Kaptchuk TJ, Polich G, Kirsch I, Vangel M, Zyloney C, Rosen B, Gollub R.
Neuroimage
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Alternative medicine research in clinical practice: a US national survey.
Authors: Authors: Tilburt JC, Curlin FA, Kaptchuk TJ, Clarridge B, Bolcic-Jankovic D, Emanuel EJ, Miller FG.
Arch Intern Med
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Mirror, mirror on the wall: placebo effects that exist only in the eye of the beholder.
Authors: Authors: Kelley JM, Boulos PR, Rubin PA, Kaptchuk TJ.
J Eval Clin Pract
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