Deception, Pain, and Placebo
Applying the Brummett‐Salter Deception Framework
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20337245 |
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| Authors | Jason Adam Wasserman (0000-0002-1891-1350, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 53 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 30-32 |
| Publication date | 2023-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Hastings Center Report (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0093-0334 • E-ISSN: 1552-146X |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/hast.1457 |
| PMID | 36840336 |
| OpenAlex | W4321996887 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 3 |
In this commentary, I explore the usefulness of the framework Abram Brummett and Erica K. Salter present in their article “Mapping the Moral Terrain of Clinical Deception.” Deception cases are divisive because they nearly always evoke the metadilemma of clinical ethics: a clash between duties (in these cases, truth telling) and consequences (whatever good might come of the lie). Here, I describe a patient case in which the clinical team considered deceiving a patient about his pain‐medicine dosage in exchange for his allowing the clinicians to properly care for his percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy tube stoma, so as to prevent infection. Applying the framework that Brummett and Salter have developed helped our clinical team parse the numerous complex issues involved. The nuances of our case also illustrated additional ways in which the ethics of deception needs to be further refined
Clinical Ethics · Deception · Engineering ethics · Psychotherapist · Ethics and Legal Issues in Pediatric Healthcare · Ethics in medical practice · Medicine · Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues · Psychology · Social Psychology
| Highly cited | No |
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