RT Article
T1 Justifying Clinical Deception: Some Amendments to Brummett and Salter
JF The Hastings Center report
VO 53
IS 1
SP 26
OP 27
A1 Meyers, Christopher 1957-
LA English
PB Wiley
YR 2023
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/183765283X
AB In Abram Brummett and Erica K. Salter's excellent paper, “Mapping the Moral Terrain of Clinical Deception,” they rightly note that it is sometimes ethically appropriate for health care professionals to deceive patients and families. However, they also note that because doing so violates a prima facie duty of honesty, the ethical burden of proof falls upon the deceiver. Hence, they also provide a sophisticated framework for determining whether any given case is warranted. I applaud their overall approach but also critique some of their claims, in particular, their conclusion that lies of commission require greater justification than those of omission and their conflation of the principles of beneficence and nonmaleficence. I also urge them to give greater attention to how power asymmetries should be accounted for and to the impact such deceptive choices might have on the clinician's character.
K1 clinical ethics
K1 Virtue
K1 Power
K1 Bok
K1 Lying
K1 Deception
DO 10.1002/hast.1455