RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Parsing placebo treatments: a response to Barnhill and Miller
JF Journal of Medical Ethics
JO J Med Ethics
FD BMJ Publishing Group Ltd and Institute of Medical Ethics
SP 687
OP 689
DO 10.1136/medethics-2015-103082
VO 42
IS 10
A1 Shane Nicholas Glackin
YR 2016
UL http://jme.bmj.com/content/42/10/687.abstract
AB Anne Barnhill and Franklin Miller dispute my claim that the prescriptions of placebo treatments to patients are not typically deceptive, and do not typically violate the patients' informed consent. However, Barnhill and Miller seriously mischaracterise my position in two ways, as well as failing to show that the procedure I discuss requires a physician to act wrongfully in deceiving her patient. Accordingly, I find their argument unpersuasive.