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01-07-2020 | Care | Letter to the Editor

Expectation-based medicine in French palliative care centers: is Lyon representative?

Author: Alain Braillon

Published in: Supportive Care in Cancer | Issue 7/2020

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Filbet and colleagues must be commended for having investigated the use of complementary medicine (CM) in French palliative care centers [1]. This publication, a genuine and robust one, is most welcome, but questioning. …

Robert Proctor, a Stanford University professor specializing in the history of science, coined the neologism “agnotology” from the Greek agnōsis, "not knowing", for the ignorance or doubt induced by the Big Tobacco.

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Title: Expectation-based medicine in French palliative care centers: is Lyon representative?
Author: Alain Braillon
Publication date: 01-07-2020
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Keyword: Care
Published in: Supportive Care in Cancer / Issue 7/2020
Print ISSN: 0941-4355
Electronic ISSN: 1433-7339
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00520-020-05350-y

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