title: Parsing placebo treatments: a response to Barnhill and Miller.
abstract: 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.
authors.forename: Shane Nicholas
authors.initials: SN
authors.lastname: Glackin
mesh_terms: D030881:Disclosure; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007258:Informed Consent; D026706:Paternalism; D026684:Personal Autonomy; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations
keywords: Applied and Professional Ethics; Ethics; Informed Consent; Paternalism; Truth Disclosure