About Gold A. and Lichtenberg P. and the placebo

Authors

  • Juan Medrano

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.30860/0003

Keywords:

placebo, placebo ethics, paternalism, peripheral information, drugs

Abstract

Is it unethical to use placebo in clinical therapy? Professionals who use the placebo (according to the literature, between 15% and 80%) do so from the moral imperative of virtue and support, guided by prudence - Phronesis - that helps them balance the conflicts between beneficence and autonomy. Based on this conviction, the authors distinguish between lying and deceiving. Are we empowered, occasionally, to not provide all the information to patients, that is, to ignore the so-called "peripheral information"?

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Published

2019-05-10

How to Cite

Medrano, J. (2019). About Gold A. and Lichtenberg P. and the placebo. Prueba, (1), 19–27. https://doi.org/10.30860/0003

Issue

No. 1 (2015): Folia Humanística Número 1 - Septiembre 2015

Section

Pensamiento actual

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