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Ted Kaptchuk is an author, scholar, scientist and Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, where his research focuses on the placebo effect. He earned his Doctorate of Oriental Medicine after five years of study in China in 1975. Following his return to the United States, he was clinical director of the Pain Unit at Boston’s Lemuel Shattuck Hospital. In 1990, he accepted a position as the associate director of the Center for Alternative Medicine Research and Education at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. In 2011, he became Director of the Harvard-wide Program in Placebo Studies and the Therapeutic Encounter, hosted at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.

Selected articles

• Kaptchuk TJ. Placebo studies and ritual theory: A comparative analysis of Navajo, acupuncture and biomedical healing. Phil Trans Roy Soc B; 2011; 366: 1849-58.

• Grelotti D, Kaptchuk TJ. Placebo by proxy: Clinicians’ and family members’ feeling and perceptions about a treatment may influence their judgments about its effectiveness. BMJ 2011; 343:d4345: 1-2.

• Kaptchuk TJ, Friedlander E, Kelley JM, Sanchez MN, Kokkotou E, Singer JP, Kowalczykowski M, Miller FG, Kirsch I, Lembo AJ. Placebo without deception: a randomized controlled trial in irritable bowel syndrome. PLoS One 2010; 5:e15591.

• Kaptchuk TJ, Shaw J, Kerr CE, Conboy LA, Kelley JM, Lembo AJ, Csordas TJ, Jacobson EE. ”Maybe I made up the whole thing”: Placebos and patients’ experiences in a randomized controlled trial. Culture Med Psych 2009;33:382-412.

• Kaptchuk TJ, Kerr CE, Zanger A. Placebo controls, exorcisms and the devil. Lancet 2009; 374: 1234-35.

• Miller FG, Kaptchuk TJ. Deception of subjects in neuroscience: an ethical analysis. J Neurosci 2008;28:4841-3.

• Kong J, Gollub R, Polich G, Kirsch I, LaViolette P, Vangel M, Rosen B, Kaptchuk TJ. An fMRI study on the neural mechanisms of hyperalgesic nocebo effect. J Neurosci 2008; 28:13354-62.

• Kaptchuk TJ, Kelley JM, Conboy LA, Davis RB, Kerr CE, Jacobson EE, Kirsch I, Schyner RN, Nam BY, Nguyen LT, Park M, Rivers AL, McManus C, Kokkotou E, Drossman DA, Goldman P, Lembo AJ. Components of the placebo effect: a randomized controlled trial in irritable bowel syndrome. BMJ 2008;336:998-1003.

• Kaptchuk TJ, Stason WB, Davis RB, Legedza ATR, Schnyer RS, Kerr CE, Stone DA, Nam BH, Kirsch I, Goldman RH. Sham device versus inert pill: a randomized controlled trial comparing two placebo treatments for arm pain due to repetitive strain injury. BMJ 2006; 332:291-7.

• Kaptchuk TJ. Effect of interpretive bias on research evidence. BMJ 2003;326:1453-55.

Published works

A full list of publications can be found here.

• The Web That Has No Weaver, New York: McGraw-Hill, 1983. ISBN 978-0-8092-2840-9
• The Healing Arts: Exploring the Medical Ways of the World, Summit Books, 1987. ISBN 978-0-671-64506-9

References

1. http://www.tedkaptchuk.com
2. http://www.osher.hms.harvard.edu/peoplebio.asp?name=kaptchuk
3. http://www.bidmc.org/Research/Departments/Medicine/Divisions/GeneralMedicineandPrimaryCare/ResearchFaculty/Kaptchuk.aspx

External links

• New Yorker profile
• Personal research website
• Program in Placebo Studies and the Therapeutic Encounter website
• Beth Israel website
• One Scholar's Take On The Power of The Placebo, National Public Radio's "Science Friday" January 06, 2012
• "The Placebo Phenomenon: An ingenious researcher finds the real ingredients of “fake” medicine.", Harvard Magazine January 2013

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