{"id":385,"date":"2016-04-08T00:23:23","date_gmt":"2016-04-08T04:23:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/?p=385"},"modified":"2016-04-08T13:03:02","modified_gmt":"2016-04-08T17:03:02","slug":"the-placebo-effect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/2016\/04\/08\/the-placebo-effect\/","title":{"rendered":"The Placebo Effect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">Throughout the novel when all else fails the doctors of the novel turn to pseudoscience. I believe the scene that best displays something \u201cyou cannot understand\u201d is the scene when Lucy struggles for life. In this scene\u00a0there is a moment where Dr. Seward notices that \u201cwhenever she got into that lethargic state, with the stertorous breathing, she put the flowers from her; but that when she waked she clutched them close\u201d (Chp 12). \u00a0Even in Lucy\u2019s state of falling in and out of consciousness she finds comfort in the garlic necklace, that Dr. Van Helsing had tried to explain to Lucy\u2019s mother was a part of her treatment. However, Dr. Van Helsing never truly\u00a0explains\u00a0 scientifically how garlic will help Lucy, and it is interesting that no one else cares to ask him why he resorts to this form of medication once the blood transfusions no longer work. Even Dr. Seward doesn\u2019t appear to care why Van Helsing is turning to this form of pseudoscience as a form of treatment. I believe that no one questions the treatments prescribed through pseudoscience because of the placebo effect it has on patients. Placebo\u2019s may even be seen as the new version of pseudoscience in today\u2019s world. Yet, going back to this moment in the novel once Lucy dies Dr. Seward says \u201cAh, well, poor girl, there is peace for her at last. It is the end!\u201d; however, he cannot comprehend what Dr. Van Helsing means when he responds \u201cNot so; alas! Not so. It is only the beginning!\u201d. \u00a0So of course, after hearing this, Dr. Seward puts his faith in pseudoscience, and most likely believes that\u00a0response from Van Helsing\u00a0may be due to the garlic treatment,\u00a0because the truth behind Dr. Van Helsings treatments has yet to be revealed in this scene. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>This video talks about the science behind the placebo effect as well as the correlation I&#8217;m trying to\u00a0make\u00a0with why people believe that\u00a0pseudoscience\/magic can heal people and work\u00a0.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Why does the placebo effect work?\" width=\"660\" height=\"371\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gm02Oid8sbs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Throughout the novel when all else fails the doctors of the novel turn to pseudoscience. I believe the scene that best displays something \u201cyou cannot understand\u201d is the scene when Lucy struggles for life. In this scene\u00a0there is a moment where Dr. Seward notices that \u201cwhenever she got into that lethargic state, with the stertorous &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/2016\/04\/08\/the-placebo-effect\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Placebo Effect<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3007,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[123782],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2016-blog-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3007"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}