A propósito de Gold A. y Lichtenberg P. y el placebo

  1. Medrano, Juan
Revista:
Folia Humanística

ISSN: 2462-2753

Año de publicación: 2015

Título del ejemplar: Folia Humanística Número 1 - Septiembre 2015

Número: 1

Páginas: 19-27

Tipo: Artículo

Otras publicaciones en: Folia Humanística

Resumen

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"?