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Good Ethics and Bad Choices: The Relevance of Behavioral Economics for Medical Ethics

Good Ethics and Bad Choices: The Relevance of Behavioral Economics for Medical Ethics

Blumenthal-Barby, Jennifer S.

Paperback

Series: Basic Bioethics

Investing & FinanceMedical Reference

ISBN10: 026254248X
ISBN13: 9780262542487
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: Aug 3 2021
Pages: 264
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.60 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
An analysis of how findings in behavioral economics challenge fundamental assumptions of medical ethics, integrating the latest research in both fields.

Bioethicists have long argued for rational persuasion to help patients with medical decisions. But the findings of behavioral economics--popularized in Thaler and Sunstein's Nudge and other books--show that arguments depending on rational thinking are unlikely to be successful and even that the idea of purely rational persuasion may be a fiction. In Good Ethics and Bad Choices, Jennifer Blumenthal-Barby examines how behavioral economics challenges some of the most fundamental tenets of medical ethics. She not only integrates the latest research from both fields but also provides examples of how physicians apply concepts of behavioral economics in practice.

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