What exactly is the placebo effect? How does it work? How do doctors decide whether a treatment is actually effective? What is ‘good’ medicine and how do you test for it?

In this lecture Iain Milne discusses some key figures from the history of medicine and clinical trials, including James Lind, pioneer of naval hygiene, whose medical trials were thought to have discovered a cure for scurvy.

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