Ted J. Kaptchuk
Medical researcher and placebo scholar
Ted J. Kaptchuk is an American medical researcher at Harvard Medical School who studies the placebo effect. He has also researched Chinese medicine.
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American Born 1947 in Brooklyn, United States
About Ted J. Kaptchuk
Ted Jack Kaptchuk was born on August 17, 1947, and is an American medical researcher. He holds professorships at Harvard Medical School, in medicine and in global health and social medicine. His research centers on the placebo effect, and he has also studied Chinese medicine. He has been associate director of a research center for alternative medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. He has received three Lifetime Achievement Awards for his research. Our catalog includes his book The Web That Has No Weaver.