The American Medical Ethics Revolution: Edited by R B Baker, A L Caplan, L L Emanuel, et al. The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999, US$59.95, pp 396. ISBN 0801861705 [Book Review]

Journal of Medical Ethics 28 (1):58-1 (2002)
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Codified moral medicine is an antidote to many problems, a bulwark against wallowing in the morass of moral idolatry, and a rampart that should be strengthened continually, rather than dismantled. The notion of medical professional self regulation, by means of codification and collaboration, was actually conceived in Britain, by Dr Thomas Percival, but born in America. The American Medical Ethics Revolution, through the medium of a tetrad of editors and a stellar collection of luminaries, displays the pedigree of codified American medical ethical thought back to its earliest progenitor: the primordial 1847 American Medical Association (AMA) code of ethics. The clash of deftly handled academic sabres vivifies the medical ethical dimension of the practice of medicine in …

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