Part one of term paper
The activity I chose to write about was on Dr. Walter A. Brown’s article in Scientific American about placebos and their effect on the patients. His article described what a placebo is and if it is ethical for doctors to prescribe this “treatment” to their patients. Dr. Brown, who is a psychologist at Brown University, deci ...

Part two of term paper
... experiments on patients who had depression. To test his idea, he employed what is known as the “double blind technique.” This type of experimentation involves that neither the doctors nor the patients know if they are receiving the real “stuff” or simply sugar pills (placebos). Only the experimenters know who gets what. What this supposedly does is that the patient will mentally think that the doctor is giving him/her the real drug and they will soon be feeling bett ...