Distrust, Fear, and Science-Denial in Medicine and Healthcare (Hardcover, 1)

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