New Issue of The American Journal of Bioethics is Now Available

December 15, 2009

The American Journal of Bioethics (Volume 9, Issue 12, 2009) is now available by subscription only.

Articles include:

• “On the Healthcare Question” by Constantine A. Manthous, 1-3.
• “A Duty to Deceive: Placebos in Clinical Practice” by Bennett Foddy, 4-12.
• “Medicine’s Continuing Quest for an Excuse to Avoid Relationships with Patients” by Howard Brody, 13-15.
• “The Primacy of Autonomy, Honest, and Disclosure- Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs’ Placebo Opinions” by Kavita R. Shah and Susan Dorr Goold, 15-17.
• “Paternalistic Assumptions and Purported Duty to Deceive” by Jeffrey Berger, 20-21.
• “Physician Deception and Patient Autonomy” by D. Micah Hester and Robert B. Talisse, 22-23.
• “Placebo Prescriptions Are Missed Opportunities for Doctor-Patient Communication” by Yael Schenker, Alicia Fernandez, and Bernard Lo; 48-50.