Ethics, Trust, and the Professions
 300 pp., 6 x 9 Paperback ISBN: 9780878405138 (0878405135) January 1991 LC: 90-46368 EXPLORE THIS TITLE DescriptionTable of Contents |
Ethics, Trust, and the Professions
Philosophical and Cultural Aspects
Winner of the 2008 Lifetime Achievement Award of the American Society of Bioethics and the Humanities
The essays in Ethics, Trust, and the Professions probe the nature of the fiduciary relationship that binds client to lawyer, believer to minister, and patient to doctor. Angles of approach include history, sociology, philosophy, and culture, and their very multiplicity reveals how difficult we find it to formulate a code of ethics which will insure a relationship of trust between the professional and the public. Table of Contents Preface I. The Concept of the Fiduciary Relation The Politics of Trust in American Health Care Daniel M. Fox The Fiduciary Relationship and the Nature of Professions Robert Sokolowski The Phenomenon of Trust and the Patient-Physician Relationship Richard M. Zaner Trust and Distrust in Professional Ethics Edmund D. Pellegrino II. What Does Trust Require? The Physician's Knowledge and the Patient's Best Interest Allen Buchanan Fact and Values in the Physician-Patient Relationship Dan W. Brock Are There Virtues Inherent in a Profession? Gilbert Meilaender Is Trust of Professionals a Coherent Concept? Robert M. Veatch III. The Sociocultural Setting of the Professions Professions, Professors, and Competing Obligations Samuel Gorovitz Nourishing Professionalism Eliot Freidson Professional Paradigms John Langan IV. Fiduciary Relationship: Several World Views Fiduciary Relationships and the Medical Profession: A Japanese Point of View Rihito Kimura The Fiduciary Relationship between Professionals and Clients: A Chinese Perspective Ren-zong Qiu Professional Organizations and Professional Ethics: A European View Hans-Martin Sass |