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Trusting Doctors: The Decline of Moral Authority in American Medicine

Trusting Doctors: The Decline of Moral Authority in American Medicine

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Medical ReferenceGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 0691168148
ISBN13: 9780691168142
Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr
Published: Sep 1 2015
Pages: 280
Weight: 1.01
Height: 0.67 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

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.


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