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The Illusion of Trust - Toward a Medical Theological Ethics in the Postmodern Age (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1995)
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The Illusion of Trust - Toward a Medical Theological Ethics in the Postmodern Age (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1995)
Series: Theology and Medicine, 5
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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."
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