Trusting Doctors

Author: Jonathan B. Imber
Edition: 1
Binding: Kindle Edition
ISBN: B001O5BEQ4
Category: Medical

Trusting Doctors: The Decline of Moral Authority in American Medicine

For more than a century, the American medical profession insisted that doctors be rigorously trained in medical science and dedicated to professional ethics. Download Trusting Doctors medical books for free.
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; Get Trusting Doctors our bestseller medical books.

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