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  • Bioethics
  • Philosophy of Medicine
  • Clinical Practice

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  • Conflicting views exist on deception in clinical practice: clinicians should not deceive patients, yet deception is sometimes in a patient's best interest.
  • Hardman's recent work attempts to resolve this conflict by examining deceptive and non-deceptive practices beyond patient beliefs, considering non-doxastic attitudes.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To critically evaluate Hardman's framework for understanding deception in clinical settings.
  • To identify and address three significant flaws in Hardman's reasoning regarding deception and non-deceptive care.
  • To offer a refined, more principled approach to analyzing deception in patient care.

Main Methods:

  • Philosophical analysis of Hardman's arguments on deception.
  • Examination of the role of intentionality in defining deception.
  • Critique of Hardman's characterization of non-deceptive care and its relationship to normativity.

Main Results:

  • Hardman's account of deception is underdeveloped, particularly concerning the requirement of intentionality.
  • Hardman mischaracterizes the inverse of deceptive care, leading to an inaccurate view of non-deceptive practices.
  • The distinction between deception and normativity in clinical contexts is inadequately addressed in Hardman's analysis.

Conclusions:

  • Hardman's framework for understanding deception in clinical practice contains significant flaws.
  • A clearer understanding of deception requires addressing intentionality and accurately defining non-deceptive care.
  • A more principled and simpler approach can preserve key insights while resolving conceptual ambiguities in the ethics of patient care.