This book analyses the decline of trust, mounting of fears, and increasing denial of science and looks at their role in medicine and healthcare, both in terms of the patient-physician relationship and for delivering high-quality healthcare, in order to establish why we need trust and what can be done to restore it.
This book analyses the decline of trust, mounting of fears, and increasing denial of science and looks at their role in medicine and healthcare, both in terms of the patient-physician relationship and for delivering high-quality healthcare, in order to establish why we need trust and what can be done to restore it.
Markus Wolfensberger is Emeritus Professor of Otorhinolaryngology and Doctor of medical ethics. He has held positions as Head of the Department of Otorhino-laryngology and Director of the Head and Neck Tumour Centre at Basel University Hospital, Switzerland. Anthony Wrigley is Professor of Ethics at the University of Keele, U.K. He specialises in Bioethics and Applied Ethics. Much of his work focuses on ethical and policy issues on the margins of life (beginnings and ends) and the analysis of concepts used in bioethical debate, such as vulnerability, hope, and trust
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction. Part I: Definitions 1. Trust Mistrust and Distrust 2. Hope Fear and Despair 3. Belief Doubt and Disbelief Part II: Explanations 4. The Value of Trust 5. Empirical Evidence for the Decline of Trust in Physicians 6. Reasons for the Decline of Trust in Physicians 7. The Rejection of Science and Reason 8. From Justified Fears to Irrational Beliefs and Conspiracy Theories 9. 'Why Can't People be More Like Us?' On Relativist Postmodernist Subjectivist Post-truth Anti-Scientific and Anti-Expert Thinking. Part III: Suggestions 10. Dispelling two Illusions Regarding the Restoration of Trust 11. How to Establish and Maintain Trust 12. Countering Fear Science-Denial and Pseudoscience. Epilogue. Index
Introduction. Part I: Definitions 1. Trust Mistrust and Distrust 2. Hope Fear and Despair 3. Belief Doubt and Disbelief Part II: Explanations 4. The Value of Trust 5. Empirical Evidence for the Decline of Trust in Physicians 6. Reasons for the Decline of Trust in Physicians 7. The Rejection of Science and Reason 8. From Justified Fears to Irrational Beliefs and Conspiracy Theories 9. 'Why Can't People be More Like Us?' On Relativist Postmodernist Subjectivist Post-truth Anti-Scientific and Anti-Expert Thinking. Part III: Suggestions 10. Dispelling two Illusions Regarding the Restoration of Trust 11. How to Establish and Maintain Trust 12. Countering Fear Science-Denial and Pseudoscience. Epilogue. Index
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