LEADER 04529nam 2200673 a 450 001 9910459631703321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-282-96437-2 010 $a9786612964374 010 $a1-4008-2889-9 024 7 $a10.1515/9781400828890 035 $a(CKB)2670000000066543 035 $a(EBL)646758 035 $a(OCoLC)701704251 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000474010 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11322212 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000474010 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10448525 035 $a(PQKB)10111713 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC646758 035 $a(OCoLC)703155082 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse36688 035 $a(DE-B1597)446831 035 $a(OCoLC)979779462 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781400828890 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL646758 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10442050 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL296437 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000066543 100 $a20080213d2008 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aTrusting doctors$b[electronic resource] $ethe decline of moral authority in American medicine /$fJonathan B. Imber 205 $aCourse Book 210 $aPrinceton, NJ $cPrinceton University Press$dc2008 215 $a1 online resource (296 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-691-16814-8 311 $a0-691-13574-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tPreface. A Sociological Perspective -- $tIntroduction -- $tPart One. Religious Foundations of Trust in Medicine -- $tCHAPTER 1. Protestantism, Piety, and Professionalism -- $tChapter 2. The Influence of Catholic Perspectives -- $tChapter 3. The Scientific Challenge to Faith -- $tChapter 4. Public Health, Public Trust, and the Professionalization of Medicine -- $tPart Two. Beyond The Golden Age Of Trust In Medicine -- $tChapter 5. The Growth of Popular Distrust in Medicine -- $tChapter 6. The Evolution of Bioethics -- $tChapter 7. Anxiety in the Age of Epidemiology -- $tChapter 8. Trust and Mortality -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tAppendix 1. Extant Addresses, Sermons, and Eulogies by Clergymen -- $tAppendix 2. Philadelphia Medical Sermons -- $tAppendix 3. Long Island College Hospital Commencements, 1860-1899 -- $tNotes -- $tIndex 330 $aFor 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 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. Trusting Doctors provides valuable insights into the religious underpinnings of the doctor-patient relationship and raises critical questions about the ultimate place of the medical profession in American life and culture. 606 $aMedical ethics 606 $aMedical policy$xMoral and ethical aspects 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aMedical ethics. 615 0$aMedical policy$xMoral and ethical aspects. 676 $a174.2 700 $aImber$b Jonathan B.$f1952-$01041337 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910459631703321 996 $aTrusting doctors$92470909 997 $aUNINA