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Trust in Medicine: Its Nature, Justification, Significance, and Decline

Trust in Medicine: Its Nature, Justification, Significance, and Decline

Name: Trust in Medicine: Its Nature, Justification, Significance, and Decline
Brand: Cambridge University Press
SKU: 9781108487191
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Author: Markus Wolfensberger; Anthony Wrigley
ISBN: 9781108487191

Edited by Markus Wolfensberger · Anthony Wrigley

Cambridge University Press August 2019

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ISBN-13: 9781108487191
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication: August 2019
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

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Over the past decades, public trust in medical professionals has steadily declined. This decline of trust and its replacement by ever tighter regulations is increasingly frustrating physicians. However, most discussions of trust are either abstract philosophical discussions or social science investigations not easily accessible to clinicians.

The authors, one a surgeon-turned-philosopher, the other an analytical philosopher working in medical ethics, joined their expertise to write a book which straddles the gap between the practical and theoretical. Using an approach grounded in the methods of conceptual analysis found in analytical philosophy which also draws from approaches to medical diagnosis, the authors have conceived an internally coherent and comprehensive definition of trust to help elucidate the concept and explain its decline in the medical context.

This book should appeal to all interested in the ongoing debate about the decline of trust - be it as medical professionals, medical ethicists, medical lawyers, or philosophers.

Part I. Introduction:

1. Introduction

2. Empirical evidence for the decline of trust

Part II. The Nature of Trust:

3. A critical analysis of existing definitions of trust in medicine

4. Proposing a new type of definition: the pattern-based definition

5. A Pattern-based definition of trust

6. Differentiating trust from related concepts

7. Adapting the definition of trust to different situations

Part III. Justification of Trust:

8. Justification of epistemic trust

9. Justification of patients' trust in physicians

Part IV. Significance of Trust:

10. Instrumental utility of trust

11. The moral value of trust

Part V. The Decline of Trust:

12. Reasons for the decline of trust

Part VI. Perspectives:

13. Can we restore trust? List of references

Index.

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