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About Dr. Jeremy Howick

Oxford PHILOSOPHER and MEDICAL RESEARCHER, Dr. Jeremy Howick has conducted groundbreaking studies about placebos and why we need unbiased experiments. He has degrees from Dartmouth College, the London School of Economics, and the University of Oxford. He has over 80 academic publications in top journals such as the British Medical Journal, Annals of Internal Medicine, and The Lancet. His textbook The Philosophy of Evidence-Based Medicine spearheaded a new sub-discipline. He collaborates about placebo treatments and the need for rigorous evidence with the National Institutes of Health in the United States, the National Institutes of Health Research in the United Kingdom, and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research in Canada, and Harvard University. He has won three teaching awards, appears regularly on television and has written for the Times, the HUFFINGTON POST, and THECONVERSATION. He is currently working on a mega-study of the benefits of doctor empathy..

Wellbeing

Creating a worldwide pandemic of wellbeing

My friends asked me how they can apply the principles in my book DOCTOR YOU to their own lives. The focus of the book is to change the way people think about their bodies, their health, and medicine. I’ve designed a wellbeing programme where the focus is on actually doing things that will generate immediate noticeable benefits. There are two versions of the Doctor You Wellbeing: the CORPORATE WELLBEING PROGRAMME, and the ‘NEW DOCTOR YOU 8 WEEK HAPPINESS AND WELLNESS COURSE‘ for individuals…

Academic Research

Dr. Howick has published over 75 academic articles in peer-reviewed journals and is internationally recognized in the medical and philosophical communities for his work on placebos. Click on the links below to read them.

Other publications

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Upcoming Events

21 March 2019. ENHANCING EMPATHY IN CHIROPRACTIC. World Chiropractic Congress. Berlin, Germany

5 June 2019. Implementing empathy in hospitals. McGill University. Montreal, Canada

7-9 July 2019. EXPLORING THE DARK SIDE OF THE PLACEBO: THE ETHICS AND EPISTEMOLOGY OF NOCEBO EFFECTS IN MEDICINE. 2nd Official Conference on Placebo Studies. Leiden, The Netherlands

28 September 2019. HOW TO USE PLACEBOS TO SUPPORT RECOVERY: AN EVIDENCE-BASED APPROACH. Professional Development for Manual and Physical Therapists. London, UK

1 October 2019. Doctor You. Charity event in support of the Phoenix Prison Trust. Oxford, UK (location TBA)

28 January 2020. John Locke Lecture. THE WORSHIPFUL SOCIETY OF APOTHECARIES. London, UK