Placebo surgery for Parkinson's disease: do the benefits outweigh the risks?

J Law Med Ethics. 2002 Spring;30(1):58-68. doi: 10.1111/j.1748-720x.2002.tb00720.x.
No abstract available

MeSH terms

  • Beneficence
  • Control Groups
  • Ethics, Medical
  • Female
  • Fetal Tissue Transplantation / methods
  • Fetal Tissue Transplantation / standards*
  • Humans
  • Informed Consent
  • Male
  • Neurosurgical Procedures / methods
  • Neurosurgical Procedures / standards
  • Nontherapeutic Human Experimentation
  • Parkinson Disease / pathology
  • Parkinson Disease / surgery*
  • Parkinson Disease / therapy
  • Patient Participation
  • Patient Selection
  • Personhood
  • Placebo Effect
  • Placebos / standards*
  • Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic / standards*
  • Risk Assessment*
  • Social Justice
  • Substantia Nigra / cytology
  • Substantia Nigra / transplantation
  • Therapeutic Human Experimentation
  • Treatment Outcome

Substances

  • Placebos