Includes bibliographical references (unnumbered page 209-page 231) and index.

Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Decision psychology and medical decision making : how patients decide -- Bad decisions? : what behavioral economics means for patient autonomy, decision quality, well-being -- The ethics of using nudging and choice architecture to improve decision making : four arguments for nudging -- Are all nudges ethically equal? -- Nudging in the weeds : case studies of nudging in the clinic -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

"Bioethicists have long argued for rational persuasion to help patients with medical decisions. But the findings of behavioral economics--popularized in Taler and Sunstein's Nudge and other books--show that arguments depending on rational thinking are unlikely to be successful and even that the idea of purely rational persuasion may be fiction. In Good Ethics and Bad Choices, Jennifer Blumenthal-Barby examines how behavioral economics challenges some of the most fundamental tenets of medical ethics. She not only integrates the latest research from both fields but also provides examples of how physicians apply concepts of behavioral economics in practice"--page 4 of cover.

"An original examination of the relevance of behavioral economics for the practice of medical ethics"--