Placebo treatments, informed consent and ‘the grip of a false picture’
It is widely supposed that the prescription of placebo treatments to patients for therapeutic purposes is ethically problematic on the grounds that the patient cannot give informed consent to the treatment, and is therefore deceived by the physician. This claim, I argue, rests on two confusions: one...
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| Language: | English |
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BMJ Publ.
2015
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Journal of medical ethics
Year: 2015, Volume: 41, Issue: 8, Pages: 669-672 |
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