Trusting Doctors : : The Decline of Moral Authority in American Medicine / / Jonathan B. Imber.
For more than a century, the American medical profession insisted that doctors be rigorously trained in medical science and dedicated to professional ethics. Patients revered their doctors as representatives of a sacred vocation. Do we still trust doctors with the same conviction? In Trusting Doctor...
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Imber, Jonathan B., author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Trusting Doctors : The Decline of Moral Authority in American Medicine / Jonathan B. Imber. Course Book Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2008] ©2008 1 online resource (280 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface. A Sociological Perspective -- Introduction -- Part One. Religious Foundations of Trust in Medicine -- CHAPTER 1. Protestantism, Piety, and Professionalism -- Chapter 2. The Influence of Catholic Perspectives -- Chapter 3. The Scientific Challenge to Faith -- Chapter 4. Public Health, Public Trust, and the Professionalization of Medicine -- Part Two. Beyond The Golden Age Of Trust In Medicine -- Chapter 5. The Growth of Popular Distrust in Medicine -- Chapter 6. The Evolution of Bioethics -- Chapter 7. Anxiety in the Age of Epidemiology -- Chapter 8. Trust and Mortality -- Acknowledgments -- Appendix 1. Extant Addresses, Sermons, and Eulogies by Clergymen -- Appendix 2. Philadelphia Medical Sermons -- Appendix 3. Long Island College Hospital Commencements, 1860-1899 -- Notes -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star For more than a century, the American medical profession insisted that doctors be rigorously trained in medical science and dedicated to professional ethics. Patients revered their doctors as representatives of a sacred vocation. Do we still trust doctors with the same conviction? In Trusting Doctors, Jonathan Imber attributes the development of patients' faith in doctors to the inspiration and influence of Protestant and Catholic clergymen during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He explains that as the influence of clergymen waned, and as reliance on medical technology increased, patients' trust in doctors steadily declined. Trusting Doctors discusses the emphasis that Protestant clergymen placed on the physician's vocation; the focus that Catholic moralists put on specific dilemmas faced in daily medical practice; and the loss of unchallenged authority experienced by doctors after World War II, when practitioners became valued for their technical competence rather than their personal integrity. Imber shows how the clergy gradually lost their impact in defining the physician's moral character, and how vocal critics of medicine contributed to a decline in patient confidence. The author argues that as modern medicine becomes defined by specialization, rapid medical advance, profit-driven industry, and ever more anxious patients, the future for a renewed trust in doctors will be confronted by even greater challenges. Trusting Doctors provides valuable insights into the religious underpinnings of the doctor-patient relationship and raises critical questions about the ultimate place of the medical profession in American life and culture. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021) Bioethical Issues History United States. Bioethical Issues United States History. Ethics, Medical History United States. History, 19th Century United States. History, 20th Century United States. MEDICAL Ethics. Medical ethics United States History. Medical ethics. Medical policy Moral and ethical aspects. Medicine United States Religious aspects. Physician-Patient Relations United States. Religion and Medicine United States. MEDICAL / Ethics. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 9783110442502 print 9780691135748 https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400828890 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781400828890 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9781400828890.jpg |
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Imber, Jonathan B., Imber, Jonathan B., Trusting Doctors : The Decline of Moral Authority in American Medicine / Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface. A Sociological Perspective -- Introduction -- Part One. Religious Foundations of Trust in Medicine -- CHAPTER 1. Protestantism, Piety, and Professionalism -- Chapter 2. The Influence of Catholic Perspectives -- Chapter 3. The Scientific Challenge to Faith -- Chapter 4. Public Health, Public Trust, and the Professionalization of Medicine -- Part Two. Beyond The Golden Age Of Trust In Medicine -- Chapter 5. The Growth of Popular Distrust in Medicine -- Chapter 6. The Evolution of Bioethics -- Chapter 7. Anxiety in the Age of Epidemiology -- Chapter 8. Trust and Mortality -- Acknowledgments -- Appendix 1. Extant Addresses, Sermons, and Eulogies by Clergymen -- Appendix 2. Philadelphia Medical Sermons -- Appendix 3. Long Island College Hospital Commencements, 1860-1899 -- Notes -- Index |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface. A Sociological Perspective -- Introduction -- Part One. Religious Foundations of Trust in Medicine -- CHAPTER 1. Protestantism, Piety, and Professionalism -- Chapter 2. The Influence of Catholic Perspectives -- Chapter 3. The Scientific Challenge to Faith -- Chapter 4. Public Health, Public Trust, and the Professionalization of Medicine -- Part Two. Beyond The Golden Age Of Trust In Medicine -- Chapter 5. The Growth of Popular Distrust in Medicine -- Chapter 6. The Evolution of Bioethics -- Chapter 7. Anxiety in the Age of Epidemiology -- Chapter 8. Trust and Mortality -- Acknowledgments -- Appendix 1. Extant Addresses, Sermons, and Eulogies by Clergymen -- Appendix 2. Philadelphia Medical Sermons -- Appendix 3. Long Island College Hospital Commencements, 1860-1899 -- Notes -- Index |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface. A Sociological Perspective -- Introduction -- Part One. Religious Foundations of Trust in Medicine -- CHAPTER 1. Protestantism, Piety, and Professionalism -- Chapter 2. The Influence of Catholic Perspectives -- Chapter 3. The Scientific Challenge to Faith -- Chapter 4. Public Health, Public Trust, and the Professionalization of Medicine -- Part Two. Beyond The Golden Age Of Trust In Medicine -- Chapter 5. The Growth of Popular Distrust in Medicine -- Chapter 6. The Evolution of Bioethics -- Chapter 7. Anxiety in the Age of Epidemiology -- Chapter 8. Trust and Mortality -- Acknowledgments -- Appendix 1. Extant Addresses, Sermons, and Eulogies by Clergymen -- Appendix 2. Philadelphia Medical Sermons -- Appendix 3. Long Island College Hospital Commencements, 1860-1899 -- Notes -- Index |
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