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Regulating The Placebo Effect In Clinical Practice, Tracey Chan
Regulating The Placebo Effect In Clinical Practice, Tracey Chan
Tracey E Chan
Recent research and ethical analysis have forced a clinical and ethical reappraisal of the utility of placebos in medical practice. The main concern of ethics and law is that using placebos in health care involves deception, which is antithetical to patient autonomy and trust in the physician-patient relationship. This paper reviews the various, more nuanced scientific conceptions of the placebo effect, and evaluates the ethical and legal objections to deploying placebos in clinical practice. It argues that the placebo effect may be legitimately accommodated on the basis that it does not engage the requirement for material or quasi-fiduciary disclosures of …
Evidence, Belief, And Action: The Failure Of Equipoise To Resolve The Ethical Tension In The Randomized Clinical Trial, Deborah Hellman
Evidence, Belief, And Action: The Failure Of Equipoise To Resolve The Ethical Tension In The Randomized Clinical Trial, Deborah Hellman
Deborah Hellman
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Universalism And Particularism In Bioethics: Lessons From Theological Ethics, Michael Moreland
Universalism And Particularism In Bioethics: Lessons From Theological Ethics, Michael Moreland
Michael P. Moreland
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Assisted Suicide, Liberalism, And Law In The United States, Michael Moreland
Assisted Suicide, Liberalism, And Law In The United States, Michael Moreland
Michael P. Moreland
No abstract provided.