Trusting doctors : the decline of moral authority in American medicine /
Imber, Jonathan B., 1952-
Trusting doctors : the decline of moral authority in American medicine / Jonathan B. Imber. - Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, ©2008. - 1 online resource (xix, 274 pages)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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.
9781400828890 (electronic bk.) 1400828899 (electronic bk.)
22573/cttvc5s JSTOR
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.
Medical ethics.
Medical policy--Moral and ethical aspects.
Patient
Vertrauen
Moralische Verantwortung
Arzt
United States
USA
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
R724 / .I5446 2008eb
174.2
2008 L-008 WZ 70 AA1 / I32t 2008
Trusting doctors : the decline of moral authority in American medicine / Jonathan B. Imber. - Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, ©2008. - 1 online resource (xix, 274 pages)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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.
9781400828890 (electronic bk.) 1400828899 (electronic bk.)
22573/cttvc5s JSTOR
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.
Medical ethics.
Medical policy--Moral and ethical aspects.
Patient
Vertrauen
Moralische Verantwortung
Arzt
United States
USA
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
R724 / .I5446 2008eb
174.2
2008 L-008 WZ 70 AA1 / I32t 2008