Trusting doctors : the decline of moral authority in American medicine /
Author / Creator: | Imber, Jonathan B., 1952- author. |
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Imprint: | Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, ©2008. |
Description: | 1 online resource (xix, 274 pages) |
Language: | English |
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Format: | E-Resource Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11245690 |
Summary: | 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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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xix, 274 pages) |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 9781400828890 1400828899 9780691135748 0691135746 |