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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: American medical ethics revolution. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999 (OCoLC)607269216 |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Robert Baker |
ISBN: | 0801861705 9780801861703 |
OCLC Number: | 41256351 |
Description: | xxxix, 396 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
Contents: | 1. Setting the stage: moral philosophy, Benjamin Rush, and medical ethics in the United States before 1846 / Chester R. Burns -- 2. The American Medical Ethics Revolution / Robert B. Baker -- 3. The 1880s Rebellion against the AMA Code of Ethics: "Scientific Democracy" and the dissolution of orthodoxy / John Harley Warner -- 4. The challenge of specialism in the 1900s / Rosemary A. Stevens -- 5. Medical ethics and the media: oaths, codes, and popular culture / Susan E. Lederer -- 6. One hundred fifty years later: the moral status and relevance of the AMA Code of Ethics / Edmund D. Pellegrino -- 7. Professionalism and institutional ethics / Eliot Freidson. 8. Doctor, schmocter: practice positivism / Arthur Isak Applbaum -- 9. Who should control the scope and nature of medical ethics? / Robert M. Veatch -- 10. Medical ethics as a medical matter / Mark Siegler -- 11. Professionalism and professional ethics / Alexander Morgan Capron -- 12. Who needs physicians' professional ethics? / Stephen R. Latham and Linda L. Emanuel -- 13. Codes visible and invisible: the twentieth-century fate of a nineteenth-century code / Charles E. Rosenberg -- 14. Alternative medicine and the AMA / Paul Root Wolpe -- 15. The challenge of serving both patient and populace / Christine K. Cassel -- 16. The challenge of universal access to health care with limited resources / Robert M. Tenery Jr. 17. Future challenges to medical ethics and professional values / Albert R. Jonsen -- 18. Can ethics help guide the future of biomedicine? / Arthur L. Caplan -- 19. Bioethics in the developing world: national responsibilities and international collaboration / Florencia Luna -- 20. Medical ethics and human rights: reflections on the fiftieth anniversary of the Nuremberg Code / George J. Annas -- Appendixes: A. Note to 1847 Convention / Isaac Hays -- B. Introduction to the 1847 Code of Ethics / John Bell -- C. Code of Ethics (1847) / John Bell and Issac Hays -- D. Principles of Medical Ethics (1903) / AMA -- E. Principles of Medical Ethics (1912) / AMA -- F. Principles of Medical Ethics (1957) / AMA -- G. Principles of Medical Ethics (1980) / AMA -- H. Fundamental elements of the Patient-Physician Relationship (1990/1994) / AMA Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs -- I. Selected opinions and reports (Opinions 7.03 and 8.061; reports on "Financial Incentives and the Practice of Medicine" and "Sexual Misconduct in the Practice of Medicine") / AMA Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs. |
Responsibility: | edited by Robert B. Baker [and others]. |
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This book will be of value to individuals interested in the history of medicine and the role that codes of ethics have played in that history, in the ethical issues that arise in the promulgation of codes of ethics, and in the way codes of ethics can and can't help us deal with changes brought about by managed care and by breakthroughs in medical technology. -- William B. Irvine Ethics This volume gives a good example of how a discussion of the history of medical ethics can provide the grounding for a well-informed debate on present and future problems in professional ethics and health care. -- Andreas-Holger Maehle Medical History A sophisticated accoutn of the social and historical processes shaping the AMA Code of Ethics from the late 17th century to the present day. -- Fern Brunger Canadian Bulletin of Medical History Read more...


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