Henry Beecher
Henry Beecher was an American anesthetist and physician best known for his pioneering research on the placebo effect. His landmark 1955 paper, 'The Powerful Placebo,' highlighted how the belief in treatment could lead to genuine pain relief, even when patients received inert substances. Beecher's work laid the foundation for modern placebo research, exploring the complex interplay between expectation, context, and physiological response, and significantly influencing the fields of medicine and psychology.
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Henry Beecher observed that wounded soldiers often reported pain relief after being given saline – believing it was morphine.
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