Open Access<p>Lay People’s Ethical Attitudes To Placebo Treatment: A Q-Methodology Study</p>
Author(s) -
Muhammad M. Hammami,
Safa Hammami,
Reem Aboushaar,
Ahmed S Aljomah
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
patient preference and adherence
Language(s) - Uncategorized
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.885
H-Index - 48
ISSN - 1177-889X
DOI - 10.2147/ppa.s216565
Subject(s) - beneficence , medicine , harm , family medicine , placebo , autonomy , alternative medicine , deception , social psychology , psychology , law , pathology , political science
Placebo-treatment acceptability is debated among ethicists, mostly due to conflict between respect-to-autonomy and beneficence principles. It is not clear how lay people balance these and other ethical principles.