Ethical Issues in Using Deception to Facilitate Rehabilitation for a Patient With Severe Traumatic Brain Injury

Matthes, Jessica; Caples, Heather

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“…The scientific community has acknowledged the growing role of families in making medical decisions for patients with TBI and has recommended the development of educational materials to assist families with these decisions (International Conference on Behavioral Health and Traumatic Brain Injury, ). In rare instances, physicians have cautiously encouraged the use of “deception” with TBI patients at risk of harming themselves or others when all other interventions have failed, reasoning that clinical benefits outweigh the risks to autonomy (Matthes & Caples, ).…”

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confidence: 99%

The Neuroethics and Neurolaw of Brain Injury

Aggarwal

Ford

2013

Behavioral Sci & The Law

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Neuroethics and neurolaw are fields of study that involve the interface of neuroscience with clinical and legal decision-making. The past two decades have seen increasing attention being paid to both fields, in large part because of the advances in neuroimaging techniques and improved ability to visualize and measure brain structure and function. Traumatic brain injury (TBI), along with its acute and chronic sequelae, has emerged as a focus of neuroethical issues, such as informed consent for treatment and research, diagnostic and prognostic uncertainties, and the subjectivity of interpretation of data. The law has also more frequently considered TBI in criminal settings for exculpation, mitigation and sentencing purposes and in tort and administrative law for personal injury, disability and worker's compensation cases. This article provides an overview of these topics with an emphasis on the current challenges that the neuroscience of TBI faces in the medicolegal arena.

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Section: Clinical Contextsmentioning

confidence: 99%