TY  - BOOK
AU  - Imber,Jonathan B.
TI  - Trusting doctors: the decline of moral authority in American medicine 
SN  - 9781400828890
AV  - R724 .I5446 2008eb
U1  - 174.2 22
PY  - 2008///
CY  - Princeton, NJ
PB  - Princeton University Press
KW  - Medical ethics
KW  - Medical policy
KW  - Moral and ethical aspects
KW  - Physician and patient
KW  - Medicine
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - Bioethical Issues
KW  - history
KW  - Ethics, Medical
KW  - History, 19th Century
KW  - History, 20th Century
KW  - Physician-Patient Relations
KW  - Religion and Medicine
KW  - Éthique médicale
KW  - Politique sanitaire
KW  - Aspect moral
KW  - Médecine
KW  - Histoire
KW  - 19e siècle
KW  - 20e siècle
KW  - Relations médecin-patient
KW  - Aspect religieux
KW  - MEDICAL
KW  - Ethics
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - History
KW  - fast
KW  - Patient
KW  - gnd
KW  - Vertrauen
KW  - Moralische Verantwortung
KW  - Arzt
KW  - United States
KW  - USA
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
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