Placebo use in clinical practice: report of the American Medical Association Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs.

Nathan A. Bostick, MA, MPP, is a Senior Research Associate at the American Medical Association, Chicago, [email protected]. Robert Sade, MD, a Professor of Surgery at the Medical College of South Carolina, Charleston. Mark A. Levine, MD, is an Associate Professor of Medicine and Preventive Medicine/Biometrics at the University of Colorado, Denver. Dudley M. Stewart, Jr., MD, is a Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the Louisiana State University School of Medicine in New Orleans. ©2008 by The Journal of Clinical Ethics. All rights reserved.