Ted Kaptchuk
Encyclopedia
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.
Harvard Medical School
Harvard Medical School is the graduate medical school of Harvard University. It is located in the Longwood Medical Area of the Mission Hill neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts....
, where his research focuses on the placebo effect
Placebo effect
Placebo effect may refer to:* Placebo effect, the tendency of any medication or treatment, even an inert or ineffective one, to exhibit results simply because the recipient believes that it will work...
. He earned his Doctorate of Oriental Medicine
Oriental Medicine
In the United States, Oriental medicine refers to a graduate-level degree program of Acupuncture and Chinese Herbal Medicine, with Tuina, Qigong and associated modalities. A MSOM, MSAOM or MSTOM degree is usually given.In 2003 the U.S. Department of Education authorized the Doctorate of...
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
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, Massachusetts is a major flagship teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School. It was formed out of the 1996 merger of Beth Israel Hospital and New England Deaconess Hospital...
in Boston. In 2011, he became Director of the Harvard-wide Program in Placebo Studies
Program in Placebo Studies
The Program in Placebo Studies and the Therapeutic Encounter was founded in July 2011, at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and the Harvard Medical School...
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. http://rstb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/366/1572/1849.short
- 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. http://www.bmj.com/content/343/bmj.d4345.extract
- 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. http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0015591
- 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. http://www.springerlink.com/content/vl1q522522866856/
- Kaptchuk TJ, Kerr CE, Zanger A. Placebo controls, exorcisms and the devil. Lancet 2009; 374: 1234-35. http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(09)61775-X/fulltext#
- Miller FG, Kaptchuk TJ. Deception of subjects in neuroscience: an ethical analysis. J Neurosci 2008;28:4841-3. http://www.jneurosci.org/content/28/19/4841.full.pdf
- 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. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2649754/
- 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. http://www.bmj.com/content/336/7651/999.full
- 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. http://www.bmj.com/content/332/7538/391.long
- Kaptchuk TJ. Effect of interpretive bias on research evidence. BMJ 2003;326:1453-55. http://www.bmj.com/content/326/7404/1453.full
Published works
A full list of publications can be found here.- The Web That Has No Weaver, New York: McGraw-Hill, 1983. ISBN 978-0809228409
- The Healing Arts: Exploring the Medical Ways of the World, Summit Books, 1987. ISBN 978-0671645069