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ress, 1993), 178. The most lucid and succinct historical treatment remains Frank E. Manuel, The Eighteenth Century Confronts the Gods (Cambridge: Harvard University Press. 1959). I have in mind such authors as John William Draper, History of the Conflict between Religion and Science (1874), and Andrew Dickson White

n our plural democracy. Curlin and colleagues have authored numerous manuscripts published in the medicine and bioethics literatures, including a New England Journal of Medicine paper titled, "Religion, Conscience and Controversial Clinical Practices." As founding Director of the Program on Medicine and Religion at the Un

ty Press, 1993), 178. The most lucid and succinct historical treatment remains Frank E. Manuel, 7he Fighteenth Century Confronts the Gods (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1959). 'Thave in mind such authors as John William Draper, History of the Conflict between Religion and Science (1874), and Andrew Dickson White, A

es in our plural democracy. Curlin and colleagues have authored numerous manuscripts published in the medicine and bioethics literatures, including a New England Journal of Medicine paper titled, “Religion, Conscience and Controversial Clinical Practices.” As founding Director of the Program on Medicine and Religion at the Univer

paring Placebo with No Treat- ment," published in The New England Journal of Medicine, was a long-overdue response to Beecher's 1955 pa

d about getting better from a placebo?" That kind of thinking, still hard for most doctors to accept, was heretical in 1990, when Kaptchuk arrived at Har- vard. "People kept saying, Oh, this is just the placebo effect.' You would hear that every day," Kaptchuk said. He had spent years studying Chinese medici