The Illusion of Trust

Toward a Medical Theological Ethics in the Postmodern Age

E.R. DuBose (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

141 Seiten

2012
Springer (Verlag)
978-94-010-4215-4 (ISBN)

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This book is about trust and its implications for a medical theological ethics. Beginning with its earliest work, there has been attention to trust running through the bioethics literature in the United States, and much of this discussion has examined its theological elements. Clearly, trust is indispensable when describing the patient-physician relationship, so why is there a need for yet another study? There is no doubt that people generally trust physicians. Traditionally the physician is the patient's fiduciary agent, whose sole obligation is to act only in the patient's best interest. In recent times, however, there is a perception on the part of people within and without health care that physicians have other obligations that compete with their obligation to the patient. If we acknowledge that one price for the successes of technological biomedicine is high in terms of financial cost, another price of Sllccess seems to be distrust, cynicism, and suspicion directed by the public toward the medical profes sion. If this uneasiness is the price society pays for medical success, what is the price of success for the doctor? Because of their role within the social order, physicians have claimed and been granted autonomy, authority, and special status. In return, the profes sion has pledged to serve the well-being and interests of humankind. This fiduciary commitment becomes a taken-for-granted aspect of the physician's identity, both for the physician for whom this dedication is definitional and for the public which expects trustworthy service from this person.

1 / The Problem and the Purpose.- 2 / Trust and the Medical Profession.- 3 / Expert Knowledge and the Medical Province of Meaning.- 4 / The Fiduciary Focus of the Medical Province of Meaning.- 5 / Trust-As-Control in a Theological Perspective.- 6 / Trust-As-Faith: Giving and Receiving in Dependency.- 7 / The Mutually Sustaining Presence of Trust-As-Faith.- References.

Reihe/Serie	Theology and Medicine ; 5
Zusatzinfo	VIII, 141 p.
Verlagsort	Dordrecht
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Medizinethik
	Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin
ISBN-10	94-010-4215-2 / 9401042152
ISBN-13	978-94-010-4215-4 / 9789401042154
Zustand	Neuware