[mjolnir]

I didn't write the example very well, sorry.

The patients had full awareness and sensitivity to pain--- the manner in which the physicians at the time were using curare was merely immobilizing them and thus making it SEEM as though they were not in pain.

The physicians did not realize this and thought the patients were making things up because they seemed under curare to be in no pain, even though they complained of being in pain later.

So when the discovery that, yes, curare as it was then applied did not prevent the patient from feeling pain, the doctors realized that, morally, they needed to adjust the way they used to curare or to stop using it.... Otherwise they would have been guilty of knowingly torturing their patients.

[Dimensio]

So when the discovery that, yes, curare as it was then applied did not prevent the patient from feeling pain, the doctors realized that, morally, they needed to adjust the way they used to curare or to stop using it.... Otherwise they would have been guilty of knowingly torturing their patients.

What scientific theory states that it is immoral to continue to cause a patient pain when appearing to treat the symptoms?