A critical examination of the false hope harms argument
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21504137 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Chris Bobier (0000-0003-4194-4721, Saint Mary's University of Minnesota Winona Minnesota, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 35 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 221-224 |
| Publication date | 2021-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Bioethics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0269-9702 • E-ISSN: 1467-8519 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/bioe.12839 |
| PMID | 33284494 |
| OpenAlex | W3111969357 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
Marleen Eijkholt presents a new argument in healthcare ethics, the false hope harms (FHH) argument. In brief, false hope promotes a host of individual harms (e.g., financial, physical, and psychological harms) and system‐level harms (e.g., distrust of medical practitioners, increased complexity of care and the associated costs), all of which provide reason for healthcare providers to stop promoting false hope in medicine. The goal of this paper is to show that the FHH argument is unsuccessful
Distrust · Health care · Political science · Psychotherapist · Clinical Reasoning and Diagnostic Skills · Ethics and Legal Issues in Pediatric Healthcare · Ethics in medical practice · Law · Medicine · Psychology · Social Psychology
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0.5 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2024 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |