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Product Description This digital document is an article from The Hastings Center Report, published by Hastings Center on July 1, 1997. The length of the article is 8408 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser. From the author: The use of deception in medical care is highly suspect in this country. Yet there is one condition for which deception is often used as a diagnostic tool. Nonepileptic seizures, a psychiatric condition in which emotional or psychological conflicts manifest themselves unconsciously through bodily symptoms, are currently diagnosed by a procedure called "provocative saline infusion." The test is fundamentally deceptive, requiring the physician to intentionally and directly lie to the patient, causing the patient to believe that the administered solution caused his seizures. Without such deception, the test might be useless. Citation Details Title: Provoking nonepileptic seizures: the ethics of deceptive diagnostic testing. Author: Jeffrey H. Burack Publication: The Hastings Center Report (Refereed) Date: July 1, 1997 Publisher: Hastings Center Volume: v27 Issue: n4 Page: p24(10) Distributed by Thomson Gale