“Your Faith has Healed You”: Christian Orthodox Theology’s Ethical Consideration on Placebos

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Christian Faith as a Way of Life

the Holy Father goes out of his way to praise the many positive contributions to human self-understanding made by philosophers who presuppose a split between faith and reason. For more on Fides et Ratio , see my “Fides et Ratio: A ‘Radical’ Vision of Intellectual Inquiry,” pp. 13-31 in Alice Ramos and Marie George, eds., Faith, Scholarship and Culture in the 21st Century (American Maritain Asso...

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Are open-Label Placebos Ethical? Informed Consent and Ethical Equivocations.

The doctor-patient relationship is built on an implicit covenant of trust, yet it was not until the post-World War Two era that respect for patient autonomy emerged as an article of mainstream medical ethics. Unlike their medical forebears, physicians today are expected to furnish patients with adequate information about diagnoses, prognoses and treatments. Against these dicta there has been on...

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