Document Type
Article
Publication Date
Fall 2017
Publication Source
Michigan Sociological Review
Volume Number
31
First Page
137
Last Page
154
Publisher
Michigan Sociological Association
ISSN
1934-7111
Abstract
We know that patients and their well-being is important to physicians, but what this means in terms of their practice is not always as clear. One potentially fruitful approach to understanding this variation is to look to physicians' value dispositions and moral foundations. Prior work within the general population has highlighted the place and importance of religion/spirituality, but very little is known about physicians and how moral foundations matter for medicine more broadly. The purpose of this research note is to explore these issues with a sample of physicians in Michigan. We find that individual characteristics are related to physicians' moral domains, and that these moral domains are related to perceptions of religion/spirituality's medical relevance and perceptions of "good" physicians.
Keywords
moral foundations, role perceptions, religion, medical profession
Recommended Citation
Repository citation: Franzen, Aaron B., "Physicians' Moral Dispositions, Role Perceptions, and Patient Interactions: Exploratory Findings from Physicians in the Midwestern United States" (2017). Faculty Publications. Paper 1445.
https://digitalcommons.hope.edu/faculty_publications/1445
Published in: Michigan Sociological Review, Volume 31, Fall October 1, 2017, pages 137-154. Copyright © 2017 Michigan Sociological Association, University Center, Michigan.
