## Ethics of placebo-controlled trials in depression Some believe that introducing a placebo control into an antidepressant drug trial means that ill patients are being unnecessarily deprived of treatment. As a result, many clinicians and ethical committees are opposed to the use of such trial met
The ethics of placebos in AIDS drug trials
β Scribed by John D. H. Porter; Bruce D. Forrest; Ann R. Kennedy
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 1992
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 445 KB
- Volume
- 4
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0956-2737
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