Jeremy Howick

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Jeremy Howick, PhD is the director of the Stoneygate Centre for Excellence in Empathic Healthcare and a senior researcher at Oxford University. He is the author of The Power of Placebos, Doctor You and The Philosophy of Evidence-Based Medicine.

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