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DEVELOPING TRUST

Patient-Practitioner Encounters in Natural Health Care

This article analyzes the patient/practitioner encounters of African-Americans who utilized natural (drugless) systems of health care. It identifies those features of the encounter that engendered trust. The view presented is that trust is a necessary component of sustained, uncoerced interaction and that patients typically seek to control the patient/practitioner encounter. Patient acquiescence and dependency in the encounter is not automatic and is strongly related to the attainment of trust.

Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Vol. 19, No. 4, 450-470 (1991)
DOI: 10.1177/089124191019004004


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