Ravines and sugar pills: defending deceptive placebo use.

In this paper, I argue that deceptive placebo use can be morally permissible, on the grounds that the deception involved in the prescription of deceptive placebos can differ in kind to the sorts of deception that undermine personal autonomy. In order to argue this, I shall first delineate two accoun...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Pugh, J
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: Oxford University Press 2015