Trusting Doctors: The Decline of Moral Authority in American

by Jonathan B. Imber

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691135746
• ISBN13: 9780691135748
• Release Date: September 2008
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 9.3"