Trusting Doctors: The Decline of Moral Authority in American Medicine Pdf Reviews

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Edition: 1
Release: 2008-08-25
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN/ASIN: 0691135746
Format: hardcover, kindle, PDF, EPUB

Trusting Doctors pdf
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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 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.Trusting Doctors 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 th Download Trusting Doctors for free via rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared, dropBox, uploading, fileserve

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