The American Medical Ethics Revolution
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The American Medical Ethics Revolution

How the Ama's Code of Ethics Has Transformed Physicians' Relationships to Patients, Professionals, and Society

Herausgeber: Baker, Robert B; Latham, Stephen R; Emanuel, Linda L; Caplan, Arthur L
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The American Medical Association enacted its Code of Ethics in 1847, the first such national codification. In this volume, a distinguished group of experts from the fields of medicine, bioethics, and history of medicine reflect on the development of medical ethics in the United States, using historical analyses as a springboard for discussions of the problems of the present, including what the editors call "a sense of moral crisis precipitated by the shift from a system of fee-for-service medicine to a system of fee-for-system medicine, better known as 'managed care.'" The authors begin with a...