Trusting doctors : the decline of moral authority in American medicine /

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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Imber, Jonathan B., 1952- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, ©2008.
Temas:
Medical ethics.
Medical policy > Moral and ethical aspects.
Physician and patient.
Medicine > Religious aspects.
Bioethical Issues > history
Ethics, Medical > history
History, 19th Century
History, 20th Century
Physician-Patient Relations
Religion and Medicine
Ethics, Medical
Éthique médicale.
Politique sanitaire > Aspect moral.
Médecine > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Médecine > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Relations médecin-patient.
Médecine > Aspect religieux.
MEDICAL > Ethics.
MEDICAL > History.
Physician and patient
Medicine > Religious aspects
Medical ethics
Medical policy > Moral and ethical aspects
Patient
Vertrauen
Moralische Verantwortung
Arzt
United States
USA
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; CONTENTS; PREFACE: A Sociological Perspective; INTRODUCTION; PART ONE: Religious Foundations of Trust in Medicine; 1 Protestantism, Piety, and Professionalism; 2 The Influence of Catholic Perspectives; 3 The Scientific Challenge to Faith; 4 Public Health, Public Trust, and the Professionalization of Medicine; PART TWO: Beyond the Golden Age of Trust in Medicine; 5 The Growth of Popular Distrust in Medicine; 6 The Evolution of Bioethics; 7 Anxiety in the Age of Epidemiology; 8 Trust and Mortality; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; APPENDIX 1: Extant Addresses, Sermons, and Eulogies by Clergymen.

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