THE PRINCIPLES OF MEDICAL ETHICS
With Annotations Especially Applicable to Psychiatry 2008 Edition
In 1973, the American Psychiatric Association (APA) published the first edition of
The Principles of Medical Ethics With Annotations Especially Applicable to Psychiatry. Subsequently, revisions were published as the APA Board of Trustees and the APA Assembly approved additional annotations. In July of 1980, the American Medical Association (AMA) approved a new version of the Principles of Medical Ethics (the first revision since 1957), and the APA Ethics Committee1 incorporated many of its annotations into the new Principles, which resulted in the 1981 edition and subsequent revisions. This version includes changes to the Principles approved by the AMA in 2001. Download Principles of Medical Ethics with Annotations Especially Applicable to Psychiatry