Name Ted Kaptchuk Role Author | Education Columbia University | |
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Books The Web That Has No Weaver, The healing arts, Chinese Medicine: The Web that Has No Weaver | ||
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Ted Kaptchuk (born August 17, 1947 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American author, researcher, and Professor of Medicine and Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School, where he focuses on the placebo effect.
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- Tedmed 2014 ted kaptchuk
- Ted kaptchuk on the placebo effect
- Education and career
- Books
- Selected Media Presentations
- References
Ted kaptchuk on the placebo effect
Education and career
Kaptchuk earned his Doctorate of Oriental Medicine after five years of study in China in 1975. After returning 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.
Kaptchuk has been an expert panelist for the FDA, served on numerous NIH panels, and worked as a medical writer for the BBC. He has authored over 200 peer-reviewed publications. Kaptchuk’s work was listed by the New Yorker Magazine as among “The Most Notable Medical Findings of 2015.”
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