Researching Trust and Health

Julie Brownlie, Alexandra Greene, Alexandra Howson, Julie Brownlie, Alexandra Greene, Alexandra Howson

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2008
• Print ISBN:
  9780415958516
• eBook ISBN:
  9781135903718
• Topic: Medicine
• Subtopic: Health Care Delivery

There is currently a lively debate ongoing in society about the nature of trust and the conditions necessary to establish and sustain it. Given the role of trust in bridging uncertainty, it is perhaps not surprising that as our consciousness of risk has increased, the role and nature of trust in social practices has come under growing scrutiny. These developments are particularly relevant to health because participation in health practices is arguably based on and engendered through trust. There is thus a need for empirically based research, which intelligently unravels this complexity to support all stakeholders in the health arena. This multidisciplinary volume of work addresses this gap by contributing substantively to the exploration of trust in the experience, practice and organization of health. It offers an overview of recent scholarship, based on empirical research, which explores the significance of trust in relation to key health-related issues. At the same time, this text examines conceptual themes in relation to trust more generally, including the relationship between trust and auditing, consent, expert knowledges and social capital.

Table of contents

• Routledge Studies in Health and Social Welfare
• Contents
• Foreword
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• 1 Conceptualizing Trust and Health
• 2 ‘Virtual Trust’
• 3 “You Have to Have Trust in Those Pictures”
• 4 Restoring Trust?
• 5 The Nature of Reciprocity and the Spirit of the Gift
• 6 Accountability and Trust in Integrated Teams for Care of Older People and People With Chronic Mental Health Problems
• 7 Trust and Asymmetry in General Practitioner–Patient Relationships in the United Kingdom
• 8 Tokens of Trust or Token Trust?
• 9 The Elixir of Social Trust
• 10 The Health Care Outcomes of Trust
• Contributors
• Index