Knowingly giving a person a placebo when there is an effective treatment available is a bioethically complex issue.

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The confessor gave him an hostie,* with a piece of wood, that was, as he pretended, a true piece of the cross, and by these he was to be fortify himself, if any other apparition should come to him, since evil spirits would certainly be chained up by them. […] The friar presented the hostie to them, which gave them such a check, that he was fully satisfied of the virtue of this preservative.

Vilification/monsterization denies agency by insisting upon the evil nature of the murderess, thus causing her to lose