Arabic-L:TRANS:placebo response

[Dilworth B. Parkinson]

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Date:  28 Nov 2001
From: Farouk Mustafa <fawm at midway.uchicago.edu>
Subject: placebo response

Instead of "wahmi" which has negative connotations, perhaps one can
think of "ihaa'i" in the sense of "suggestive" which can work for
placebo: dawa' ihaa'i and placebo effect: ta'thiir ihaa'i.  Hope that
helps.
Farouk

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