Sixty-six Years of Medical Legislation

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American Medical Association, 1914 - 26 Seiten
 

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Seite 2 - ... endeavored to formulate the duties and activities of the organized medical profession in the public health field. In outlining such a program the Council assumed that the primary object of its existence was to place before the profession and the public of the United States the objects, purposes and work of the organized medical profession as represented by the American Medical Association and its constituent state and component county societies, so as to secure public support and endorsement...
Seite 4 - That the union of the business of Teaching and Licensing in the same hands, is wrong in principle and liable to great abuse in practice. Instead of conferring the right to license on Medical Colleges, and State and County Medical Societies, it should be restricted to one Board in each State, composed in fair proportion of representatives from its Medical Colleges, and the profession at large, and the pay, for whose services as examiners, should in no degree depend on the number licensed by them...
Seite 24 - Closely connected with this would be a law regulating not only the practice of medicine as it is popularly known, but also all those who desire to treat the sick for compensation as a profession. This should include the regulation of midwives and all sects desiring to treat the sick for compensation.
Seite 5 - ... own protection, desire to impose certain restrictions on those who wish to treat the sick as a profession for compensation, then it is the business of the public to determine the conditions and administer the machinery by which such regulation shall be carried out. Whether an individual is qualified to treat the sick is an educational and not a sectarian question. Its enforcement should be in the hands, not of physicians, but of the educational authorities of the state. Having complied with the...
Seite 24 - A food and drugs act including the regulation and the sale of habit-forming drugs; a law regulating sewerage and waste disposal; water supply and the maintenance of the purity of water courses; a milk and dairy law; a law authorizing the health supervision of schools, and either a model housing law or a broad law on industrial diseases, covering factory inspection and regulation, prevention of occupational diseases, regulation of hours for women and girls, etc., might be included in this list.
Seite 23 - After this, and only secondary to it, on account of the necessity of having some machinery to operate it, is a model law for the registration of vital statistics.
Seite 18 - During the legislative session last year there were in the forty-eight legislatures then in session over 1,000 bills on public-health topics alone.
Seite 20 - What is needed is a legislative laboratory for securing and supplying information on laws, bills, model laws, court decisions or any subject relating to public health.

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