Behavioral bioethics: Notes of a behavioral economist

Li Way Lee

Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics (formerly The Journal of Socio-Economics), 2011, vol. 40, issue 4, 368-372

Abstract: Modern American bioethics is built on the assumption that the patient is fully rational. That is a very strong assumption and has made modern bioethics difficult to apply. Bioethics ought to adopt the more nuanced notion of rationality from behavioral economics. I go through several major bioethical principles, assuming that the patient is less than fully rational.

Keywords: Bioethics; Patient; Rationality; Mental; competency; Behavioral; economics; Behavioral; bioethics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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