Ethics

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This last year saw a major development in professionally articulated statements of ethics for physicians. The American Medical Association's House of Delegates adopted the first major revision of its Principles of Ethics since 1957. The newly adopted principles continue the tradition begun in 1847 when the AMA, meeting in Philadelphia, first adopted a code governing the professional conduct of its members. It has undergone four previous revisions since then. The original purpose of the current effort to revise the principles was to modernize the language, eliminate reference to gender, and reach an appropriate understanding of the relation between professional principles and contemporary society. An Ad Hoc Committee, working for two years under the chairmanship of New Jersey surgeon James S. Todd, MD, dealt simultaneously with controversial issues in the public eye, such as the ethics of advertising and chiropractic, and more subtle, fundamental issues, such as the relationship of the

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