Research Catalog

Title

Truth, trust, and medicine / Jennifer Jackson.

Author

Jackson, Jennifer C., 1939-

Publication

London ; New York : Routledge, 2001.

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Details

Description

x, 172 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

Investigating trust and honesty in medicine, Jennifer Jackson examines the doctor-patient relationship, raising questions which disturb notions of patients' autonomy, such as witholding information and consent and covert surveillance in care units.

Subject

• Ethics, Medical
• Medical ethics
• Medicine > Philosophy
• Philosophy, Medical
• Physician and patient > Moral and ethical aspects
• Physician-Patient Relations
• Truth Disclosure

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [161]-167) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Truthfulness in medical and nursing practice -- Noble lies and therapeutic tricks -- Why truthfulness matters -- What truthfulness requires -- The teaching we need to preserve truthfulness -- Doctors and nurses as 'caring pragmatists' -- Deceptions and concealments in medical and nursing practice -- Dishonesty in medical research -- Can doctors and nurses be 'too honest'? -- Truth and trust: medical ethics today and any day.

ISBN

• 0415185475
• 0415185483 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^^00056027^

OCLC

44578915

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library