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Experimental Treatment Oxymoron or Aspiration?
Author(s) -
King Nancy M. P.
Publication year - 1995
Publication title -
hastings center report
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.515
H-Index - 63
eISSN - 1552-146X
pISSN - 0093-0334
DOI - 10.2307/3562155
Subject(s) - oxymoron , medicine , general surgery , intensive care medicine , philosophy , linguistics
Giving up the increasingly troubled distinction between “experiment” and “treatment” would make it easier to focus on informed consent and harder to beg questions about uncertainty and shared decisionmaking in medicine.