American College of Physicians Ethics Manual

doi:10.1059/0003-4819-117-11-947

American College of Physicians Ethics Manual

Third Edition*

Excerpt

Medicine, law, and social values are not static and must be re-examined periodically. This edition of the ACP Ethics Manual covers emerging issues in medical ethics and revisits some old issues. The overview of the evolution of medical ethics, which appeared in previous editions of the Manual, has been eliminated to allow more space for the consideration of today's ethical dilemmas. Other changes include a revised chapter on end-of-life care, discussion of physician-assisted suicide, revised sections on conflicts of interest and on medical risk to the physician and patient, given developments in human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection and the acquired

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments: The American College of Physicians and the ACP Ethics Committee are solely responsible for the contents of the Manual. Both, however, would like to recognize former Ethics Committee members who made significant contributions to the development of this manual through their reviews of drafts: Jeremiah A. Barondess, MD; Michael Bernstein, MD; John F. Burnum, MD; Harriet P. Dustan, MD; Saul J. Farber, MD; Norton J. Greenberger, MD; Eugene A. Hildreth, MD; Richard J. Kahn, MD; C.S. Lewis, Jr., MD; Robert H. Moser, MD; E. D. Pellegrino, MD; Richard J. Reitemeier, MD; Richard W. Vilter, MD; Ralph O. Wallerstein, MD; and Donald E. Wilson, MD.

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We would also like to express much gratitude to other reviewers of the Manual: Patricia P. Barry, MD, MPH; James J. Bergin, MD; Richard W. Besdine, MD; James L. Borland, Jr., MD; Dan W. Brock, PhD; Nadine C. Bruce, MD; Arthur L. Caplan, PhD; Christine K. Cassel, MD; Clifton R. Cleaveland, MD; Linda Hawes Clever, MD; Frank Davidoff, MD; L. L. Emanuel, MD, PhD; H. Tristam Engelhardt, Jr., PhD, MD; Robert L. Fine, MD; Harold M. Friedman, MD; Michael A. Grodin, MD; Abraham L. Halpern, MD; Frederick F. Holmes, MD; Edward J. Huth, MD; Albert R. Jonsen, PhD; A. Martin Lerner, MD; Robert J. Levine, MD; Joanne Lynn, MD, MA; John P. Mullooly, MD; Lynn Peterson, MD; Timothy E. Quill, MD; James D. Rogge, MD; Laurence Z. Rubenstein, MD; Charles G. Sasser, MD; Alan M. Siegal, MD; George G. Spellman, Sr., MD; Norton Spritz, MD, JD; Sara Ellen Walker, MD; James Webster, MS, MD; Mark E. Williams, MD; and Stuart J. Youngner, MD.

Article and Author Information

↵* Members of the Ethics Committee for the 1991-92 term who developed this third edition of the manual were Edwin P. Maynard, MD, Chair; Karen Coblens, MD; Errol D. Crook, MD; Lee Dunn, Jr., JD, LLM; Arthur W. Feinberg, MD; Lloyd W. Kitchens, Jr., MD; Bernard Lo, MD; William A. Reynolds, MD; Gerald E. Thomson, MD; and Susan W. Tolle, MD. Staff editors were Lois Snyder, JD, and Janet Weiner, MPH. Additional staff contributions were made by H. Denman Scott, MD (Senior Vice President, Health and Public Policy), Linda Johnson White (Director, Department of Scientific Policy), and Linda J. Sowers. Approved by the Board of Regents on 10 July 1992.