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The American Medical Association's Code of Ethics holds that if a physician believes a treatment to be a placebo, then the patient should be informed of that belief, and the treatment should not be prescribed unless the patient agrees to its use. But this is not clearly the best way either to protect patients or to benefit them. The physician's own beliefs should not be decisive.
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Historical Article
Ethical evasion or happenstance and hubris? The U.S. Public Health Service STD Inoculation Study.
It's tempting to explain the Guatemala STD inoculation study as an attempt to evade the strictures of U. S research ethics. In fact, the researchers appear to have had benign reasons for going abroad. Only after they reached Guatemala did the study fly out of control.