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Truth, trust, and medicine / Jennifer Jackson.

Title
  1. Truth, trust, and medicine / Jennifer Jackson.
Published by
  1. London ; New York : Routledge, 2001.
Author
  1. Jackson, Jennifer C., 1939-

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Description
  1. x, 172 p.; 24 cm.
Summary
  1. 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
  1. Ethics, Medical
  2. Medical ethics
  3. Medicine > Philosophy
  4. Philosophy, Medical
  5. Physician and patient > Moral and ethical aspects
  6. Physician-Patient Relations
  7. Truth Disclosure
Contents
  1. 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.
Owning institution
  1. Harvard Library
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (p. [161]-167) and index.
Processing action (note)
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