Louhiala, PekkaHemila, HarriPuustinen, Raimo2017-10-292017-10-292014-11Louhiala, P, Hemila, H & Puustinen, R 2014, 'Clinical use of placebo treatments may undermine the trust of patients : a response to Gold and Lichtenberg', Journal of Medical Ethics, vol. 40, no. 11, pp. 787-788. https://doi.org/10.1136/medethics-2014-102219ORCID: /0000-0002-4710-307X/work/29949708ORCID: /0000-0003-4538-504X/work/32021838http://hdl.handle.net/10138/228080There is an obvious need for a critical discussion of the concepts ‘placebo’ and ‘placebo effect’. In a recent paper on the use of placebos in clinical medicine, Gold and Lichtenberg note the conceptual difficulties but use the terminology in a confused way throughout their paper. In our response, we demonstrate these problems with a few examples from their paper.2enginfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessPlaceboPublic health care science, environmental and occupational healthArticleopenAccessb15c4cea-44c9-4d9a-9869-234f49b01bf584908658651000344082900021