A propósito de Gold A. y Lichtenberg P. y el placebo
ISSN: 2462-2753
Year of publication: 2015
Issue Title: Folia Humanística Número 1 - Septiembre 2015
Issue: 1
Pages: 19-27
Type: Article
More publications in: Folia Humanística
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"?