Worrall, John (2008) Evidence and ethics in medicine. Perspectives in Biology and Medicine, 51 (3). pp. 418-431. ISSN 1529-8795
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Ethics and epistemology in medicine are more closely and more interestingly intertwined than is usually recognized. To explore this relationship, I present a case study, clinical trials of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO; an intervention for persistent pulmonary hypertension of the newborn).Three separate ethical issues that arise from this case study-whether or not it is ethical to perform a certain trial at all, whether stopping rules for trials are ethically mandated, and the issue of informed consent-are all shown to be intimately related to epistemological judgments about the weight of evidence. Although ethical issues cannot, of course, be resolved by consideration of epistemological findings, I argue that no informed view of the ethical issues that are raised can be adopted without first taking an informed view of the evidential-epistemological ones.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Official URL: | http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/perspectives_in_biolo... |
| Additional Information: | © 2008 Johns Hopkins University Press |
| Divisions: | Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method CPNSS |
| Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > B Philosophy (General) R Medicine > R Medicine (General) |
| Date Deposited: | 23 Oct 2012 10:44 |
| Last Modified: | 11 Dec 2024 23:25 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/46940 |
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