Abstract
NO AREA of medicine is more ancient and established than its ethics—yet more current and alterable. Formalized medical ethics are at least as old as the Code of Hammurabi, King of Babylon. In comparison, the Oath of Hippocrates is a latecomer. Yet, some aspects of ethics change and have to be reconsidered in the light of advances in medicine and changes in law, in custom, and in society's attitudes toward its ways of life and death. Such developments are reflected in the latest revision of the American Medical Association's Opinions and Reports of the Judicial Council , including such topics as test-tube fertilization, fetal research, genetic engineering, euthanasia, and even the moral criteria for medical costs. At the AMA's annual meeting in July 1980, the House of Delegates received an ad hoc committee report on principles of medical ethics, even though countless aspects of ethics seem to allow no final word.
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