Is There a Problem with False Fear in Medicine?

IF 0.7 4区医学 Q2 HISTORY & PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE

Perspectives in Biology and Medicine Pub Date : 2025-01-01 DOI:10.1353/pbm.2025.a968848

Christopher Bobier

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Abstract

This article introduces and analyzes a hitherto overlooked phenomenon, that of false fear in medicine. Closely aligned to cases of false hope, false fear is characterized by belief, aversion, and fixation components. Because false fear involves a fixation on an unlikely aversive outcome, it often causes harm to the person and others, and this makes intentionally causing false fear prima facie wrong. The author discusses some of false fear's sources in medicine and explains how physicians and other health-care practitioners may be blameworthy for not addressing false fear.

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医学中存在虚假恐惧的问题吗？

本文介绍并分析了一个迄今为止被忽视的现象，即医学中的虚假恐惧。与虚假希望密切相关的是，虚假恐惧的特征是信仰、厌恶和固定成分。因为虚假恐惧涉及对不太可能的厌恶结果的固定，它经常对个人和他人造成伤害，这使得故意制造虚假恐惧是错误的。作者讨论了医学中一些虚假恐惧的来源，并解释了医生和其他保健从业人员如何因没有解决虚假恐惧而受到指责。

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来源期刊

Perspectives in Biology and Medicine 医学-科学史与科学哲学

CiteScore

1.40

自引率

20.00%

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审稿时长

>12 weeks

期刊介绍： Perspectives in Biology and Medicine, an interdisciplinary scholarly journal whose readers include biologists, physicians, students, and scholars, publishes essays that place important biological or medical subjects in broader scientific, social, or humanistic contexts. These essays span a wide range of subjects, from biomedical topics such as neurobiology, genetics, and evolution, to topics in ethics, history, philosophy, and medical education and practice. The editors encourage an informal style that has literary merit and that preserves the warmth, excitement, and color of the biological and medical sciences.