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The American Medical Association is governed by a House of Delegates [15] as well as a board of trustees in addition to executive management. [16] The organization maintains the AMA Code of Medical Ethics, and the AMA Physician Masterfile containing data on United States Physicians. [17]
The AMA Journal of Ethics is a monthly open-access (no subscription or publication fees) publication that includes peer-reviewed content, expert commentary, podcasts, medical education articles, policy discussions, and cases covering areas of medical ethics. [1] It was established in 1999 as Virtual Mentor, obtaining its current name in 2015.
In 1847, the American Medical Association adopted its first code of ethics, with this being based in large part upon Percival's work. [23] While the secularized field borrowed largely from Catholic medical ethics, in the 20th century a distinctively liberal Protestant approach was articulated by thinkers such as Joseph Fletcher.
The American Medical Association, which initially pressured the American Psychiatric Association to include the Goldwater rule after actively supporting Barry Goldwater in 1964, [13] wrote new guidelines into the AMA Code of Medical Ethics in the fall of 2017, stating that physicians should refrain "from making clinical diagnoses about ...
Throughout the first half of the twentieth century, the policy of the American Medical Association labeled osteopathic medicine as a cult. The AMA Code of ethics declared it unethical for a medical physician to voluntarily associate with an osteopath. [30] [36] One notable advocate for the fledgling movement was Mark Twain.
On September 25, 1987, Getzendanner issued her opinion that the AMA had violated Section 1, but not 2, of the Sherman Act, and that it had engaged in an unlawful conspiracy in restraint of trade "to contain and eliminate the chiropractic profession". (Wilk v. American Medical Association, 671 F. Supp. 1465, N.D. Ill. 1987). She further stated ...
A code of practice is adopted by a profession (or by a governmental or non-governmental organization) to regulate that profession. A code of practice may be styled as a code of professional responsibility, which will discuss difficult issues and difficult decisions that will often need to be made, and then provide a clear account of what behavior is considered "ethical" or "correct" or "right ...
In the AMA Code of Ethics Opinion 1.1.7, which the AMA states "articulates the thoughtful moral basis for those who support assisted suicide", it is written that outside of specific situations in which physicians have clear obligations, such as emergency care or respect for civil rights, "physicians may be able to act (or refrain from acting ...