A propósito de Gold A. y Lichtenberg P. y el placebo
ISSN: 2462-2753
Datum der Publikation: 2015
Titel der Ausgabe: Folia Humanística Número 1 - Septiembre 2015
Nummer: 1
Seiten: 19-27
Art: Artikel
Andere Publikationen in: Folia Humanística
Zusammenfassung
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"?