This multidisciplinary volume addresses the nature of trust and the conditions necessary to establish and sustain it. The authors examine a range of significant conceptual themes in relation to trust, creating a landmark contribution to the theoretical and empirical work available on the subject.

Foreword Guido Möllering. Acknowledgments. Introduction Julie Brownlie and Alexandra Howson. 1. Conceptualizing Trust and Health Julie Brownlie 2. `Virtual Trust - Online Emotional Intimacies in Mental Health Support Hester Parr and Joyce Davidson 3. ¿You have to have trust in those pictures¿ A Perspective on Women¿s Experiences of Mammography Screening Marit Solbjør 4. Restoring Trust? Trust and Informed Consent in the Aftermath of the Organ Retention Scandal Valerie M. Sheach Leith 5. The Nature of Reciprocity and the Spirit of the Gift: Balancing Trust and Governance in Long Term Illness Alexandra Greene, Peter McKiernan and Stephen Greene 6. Accountability and Trust in Integrated Teams for Care of Older People with Chronic Mental Health Problems Guro Huby 7. Trust and Asymmetry in General Practitioner-Patient Relationships in the United Kingdom Bruce Guthrie 8. Tokens of Trust or Token Trust? Public Consultation and `Generation Scotland¿ Gill Haddow and Sarah Cunningham-Burley 9. The Elixir of Social Trust: Social Capital and Cultures of Challenge in Health Movements Alex Law 10. The Health Care Outcomes of Trust: A Review of Empirical Evidence Karen S. Cook and Irena Stepanikova. Contributors. Index.