摘要: Govier offers a general account of trust in variety social contexts and explores the negative effects distrust on society. For example, she examines role relationships between doctors patients politicians constituents. With well-chosen examples ranging from Oka crisis to Meech Lake, points out that politics has been especially prevalent, and, while it may be well-founded, can have pernicious effects. Social Trust Human Communities will great interest students scholars areas applied ethics, theory, politics.