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

ISBN-13: 9781108487191 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 268 str.

Markus Wolfensberger; Anthony Wrigley

Opis

Examines trust, its definition, value, and decline from the perspective of a physician and a medical ethicist.

Recenzje

'I thoroughly enjoyed reading Trust in Medicine: Its Nature, Justification, Significance, and Decline by Wolfensberger and Wrigley. It is a very clear example of how to do philosophical bioethics that engages closely with the empirical context and with practical clinical issues. The book thoroughly considers the philosophical literature on Trust and then, in a careful and strategic manner applies the lessons of that literature to the clinical context and the doctor- patient relationship. It is an extended piece of bioethics that will engage and challenge philosophers, bioethicists and clinicians. When we imagine applied philosophical bioethics, this is the kind of work that should come to mind.' Mark Sheehan, University of Oxford

Spis treści

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.