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Trust in medicine : its nature, justification, significance, and decline /

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Wolfensberger, Markus, 1948- (Author), Wrigley, Anthony (Author)
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, [2019]
Series:Cambridge bioethics and law.
Subjects:
Philosophy.
Bioethics.
Health > Law and legislation.
Medical ethics.
Ethics, Medical.
Ebooks.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Empirical Evidence for the Decline of Trust
  • A Critical Analysis of Existing Definitions of Trust in Medicine
  • Proposing a New Type of Definition : The Pattern-Based Definition
  • A Pattern-Based Definition of Trust
  • Differentiating Trust from Related Concepts
  • Adapting the Definition of Trust to Different Situations
  • Justification of Epistemic Trust
  • Justification of Patients' Trust in Physicians
  • Instrumental Utility of Trust
  • The Moral Value of Trust
  • Reasons for the Decline of Trust
  • Can We Restore Trust?