Trusting Doctors : : The Decline of Moral Authority in American Medicine /

Trusting Doctors : : The Decline of Moral Authority in American Medicine / / Jonathan B. Imber.

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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.,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2008]
©2008
Year of Publication:2008
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (280 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • 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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