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"All those interested in medicine and law have often spent days or weeks searching documents that are now finally assembled in one volume."
—Howard Brody, M.D., Ph.D
Director, Center for Ethics and Humanities in the Life Sciences
Michigan State University
When standards of care are in question, when ethics committees must set standards or make decisions, when any entity must review standards of care, this compilation of documents from the major medical professional organizations is the authoritative reference. Consult the official sources of medical ethics standards, articulated here by every major medical organization in the United States, and you have:
- Key ethics standards from the American Medical Association (AMA) and an additional 25 medical societies and specialty colleges-presented by the practitioners themselves
- Guidance on an astonishing variety of medical ethics topics—from confidentiality to research on human subjects
- An extensive index
Organizations Include:
American Medical Association
American College of Cardiology
Society of Critical Care Medicine
American College of Emergency Physicians
American Society of Human Genetics
American College of Medical Genetics
American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine
American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
American Psychiatric Association
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