Clarke Steve, Oakley Justin
Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia.
Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
J Med Philos. 2025 Feb 4;50(1):13-24. doi: 10.1093/jmp/jhae037.
It is widely supposed that it is important to ensure that patients undergoing medical procedures hope that their treatments will be successful. But why is hope so important, if indeed it is? After examining the answers currently on offer in the literature, we identify a hitherto unrecognized reason for supposing that it is important that patients possess hope for a successful treatment, which draws on prospect theory, Kahneman and Tversky's hugely influential descriptive theory about decision-making in situations of risk and uncertainty. We also consider some concerns about patient consent and the potential manipulation of patients that are raised by our account.
人们普遍认为，确保接受医疗程序的患者期望治疗成功很重要。但如果希望确实如此重要，那为什么它如此重要呢？在审视了文献中目前给出的答案后，我们找出了一个迄今未被认识到的理由，即认为患者对成功治疗抱有希望很重要，这一理由借鉴了前景理论，即卡尼曼和特沃斯基关于风险和不确定性情况下决策的极具影响力的描述性理论。我们还考虑了一些与患者同意以及我们的观点所引发的对患者潜在操纵有关的问题。
