Trusting doctors : the decline of moral authority in American medicine

Trusting doctors : the decline of moral authority in American medicine /

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...

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Main Author: Imber, Jonathan B., 1952- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, ©2008.
Subjects:
Medical ethics.
Medical policy > Moral and ethical aspects.
Physician and patient.
Medicine > Religious aspects.
Bioethical Issues > history
Ethics, Medical > history
History, 19th Century
History, 20th Century
Physician-Patient Relations
Religion and Medicine
Ethics, Medical
MEDICAL > Ethics.
MEDICAL > History.
Physician and patient
Medicine > Religious aspects
Medical ethics
Medical policy > Moral and ethical aspects
Patient
Vertrauen
Moralische Verantwortung
Arzt
United States
USA
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