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“Please Don’t Tell Me”

The Right Not to Know

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 December 2011

JONATHAN HERRING  and
CHARLES FOSTER
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Knowledge is generally a good thing. People who know lots of bits of information are generally admired. Some of them win prizes in TV competitions. If you were offered the gift of having an entire encyclopedia wired into your brain, you would probably accept, without thinking. But we should be wary of assuming that all knowledge is good. Too much knowledge can inhibit rather than enable thought.

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Special Section: Open Forum
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Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics , Volume 21 , Issue 1 , January 2012 , pp. 20 - 29
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2011

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