xxxix, 396 pages : 24 cm

"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 the 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.'""--Jacket

Includes bibliographical references and index

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

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