Sham surgery: to cut or not to cut--that is the ethical dilemma

Am J Bioeth. 2003 Autumn;3(4):66-8. doi: 10.1162/152651603322614670.
No abstract available

Publication types

  • Comment

MeSH terms

  • Deception
  • Ethical Analysis
  • Ethics Committees, Research
  • Human Experimentation / ethics*
  • Humans
  • Nontherapeutic Human Experimentation / ethics
  • Placebos*
  • Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic / ethics*
  • Risk Assessment
  • Surgical Procedures, Operative / ethics*
  • Therapeutic Human Experimentation / ethics

Substances

  • Placebos