Trusting Doctors
Trusting Doctors

Author: Jonathan B. Imber

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2015-09-01

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13: 0691168148

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For more than a century, the American medical profession insisted that doctors be rigorously trained in medical science and dedicated to professional ethics. Patients revered their doctors as representatives of a sacred vocation. Do we still trust doctors with the same conviction? In Trusting Doctors, Jonathan Imber attributes the development of patients' faith in doctors to the inspiration and influence of Protestant and Catholic clergymen during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He explains that as the influence of clergymen waned, and as reliance on medical technology increased, patients' trust in doctors steadily declined. Trusting Doctors discusses the emphasis that Protestant clergymen placed on the physician's vocation; the focus that Catholic moralists put on specific dilemmas faced in daily medical practice; and the loss of unchallenged authority experienced by doctors after World War II, when practitioners became valued for their technical competence rather than their personal integrity. Imber shows how the clergy gradually lost their impact in defining the physician's moral character, and how vocal critics of medicine contributed to a decline in patient confidence. The author argues that as modern medicine becomes defined by specialization, rapid medical advance, profit-driven industry, and ever more anxious patients, the future for a renewed trust in doctors will be confronted by even greater challenges. Trusting Doctors provides valuable insights into the religious underpinnings of the doctor-patient relationship and raises critical questions about the ultimate place of the medical profession in American life and culture.

The Beloved Physician
The Beloved Physician

Author: Alexander Huntington Clapp

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-11-15

Total Pages: 28

ISBN-13: 9780331086577

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Excerpt from The Beloved Physician: A Sermon Occasioned by the Death of Joseph Warren Fearing, M. D., Preached in the Beneficent Congregational Church, Providence, December 7th, 1862 Luke and Demas had been Paul's traveling com panions on many a weary journey and voyage, in the service of the Gospel. They were now his attendants in the Roman prison, whence he wrote this letter to the Christians at 00 losse and their salutations to those brethren, the apostle couples with his own. Demas, you remember, tired of the service, yielded to stronger attractions from this present world, and forsook the apostle, some time between the writing of this letter and the second to Timothy. But Luke remained with him, faithful to the last; ministering to his bodily ailments, and helping in every way his various apostolic labors. The apostle always mentions Luke with honor and affection but this time in terms so peculiar as at once to attract attention Luke, the beloved physician. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The Beloved Physician
The Beloved Physician

Author: Cyrus Augustus Bartol

Publisher:

Published: 2015-02-19

Total Pages: 22

ISBN-13: 9781298331427

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