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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.

Distant healing.
Authors: Authors: Kaptchuk TJ.
Ann Intern Med
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Methodological issues in trials of acupuncture.
Authors: Authors: Kaptchuk TJ.
JAMA
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The powerful placebo: doubting the doubters.
Authors: Authors: Greene PJ, Wayne PM, Kerr CE, Weiger WA, Jacobson E, Goldman P, Kaptchuk TJ.
Adv Mind Body Med
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Ted Kaptchuk, OMD subjectivity and the placebo effect in medicine. Interview by Bonnie Horrigan.
Authors: Authors: Kaptchuk T.
Altern Ther Health Med
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Do medical devices have enhanced placebo effects?
Authors: Authors: Kaptchuk TJ, Goldman P, Stone DA, Stason WB.
J Clin Epidemiol
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Debate over the history of placebos in medicine.
Authors: Authors: Kaptchuk TJ.
Altern Ther Health Med
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Challenges of evaluating homeopathic treatment of acute otitis media.
Authors: Authors: Barnett ED, Levatin JL, Chapman EH, Floyd LA, Eisenberg D, Kaptchuk TJ, Klein JO.
Pediatr Infect Dis J
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Myocardial gene transfer for patients with myocardial ischemia.
Authors: Authors: Kaptchuk TJ.
Circulation
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Placebos and placebo effects in medicine: historical overview.
Authors: Authors: de Craen AJ, Kaptchuk TJ, Tijssen JG, Kleijnen J.
J R Soc Med
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Chinese herbal medicine for irritable bowel syndrome.
Authors: Authors: Kaptchuk TJ.
JAMA
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