Word: minds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...philosophy of Western biomedicine which compartmentalized the body into separate systems. A greater emphasis was then placed on "new" more integrated views of the person, views that had been embraced by many alternative medical practitioners for millenia. A more holistic, interconnected medical paradigm, which led to the development of mind body medicine, was the result...
...called placebo effect, which refers to changes in a patient's health in response to sugar pills. Understood as a psychological response to the expectation that medication will heal, and therefore a consequence of a patient's feelings and expectations, the placebo effect indicates clearly the power of the mind to help cure the body...
...therapies. It is unreasonable to dismiss all alternative medicines as working through the placebo effect, because of the systematic and controlled scientific studies which have begun to demonstrate the validity of such treatments as acupuncture or herbal medicine. The pervasiveness of the placebo effect, which we must keep in mind when examining both conventional and alternative medicine, reminds us that controlled, double-blind studies are essential for assessing the efficacy of any type of therapy...
...semifinal round the Crimson faced off against a strong Brown team. The Crimson had swept both regular season matches against the Bears, but the victories were highly contested. With that in mind, Harvard knew it would have to be at its best, and the team responded with perhaps its strongest effort of the season, winning...
Several years later, when the three labs, the University of Arizona among them, produced their wet-blanket dates for the Turin shroud, a possibility flashed through Garza-Valdes' mind. What if the shroud too had a "bioplastic" varnish--and the labs had been fooled into decreeing an object younger than it actually was? In May 1993 Garza-Valdes traveled to Turin, microscope in hand, and was put in touch with Giovanni Riggi, the microanalyst who had parceled out the 1988 samples. Riggi let Garza-Valdes examine a tiny piece of shroud that he assured him came from the same batch...