By Carl F. Ameringer. 176 pp. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999. $39.95. ISBN 0-8018-5987-5.
This book is a good introduction to a very important subject,little known to most physicians. Written by a former Marylandassistant attorney general, it gives an overview of the historyof physician discipline and state medical boards. The legaland political aspects are covered with brevity, clarity, andthoroughness. Medicine, as befits a profession, disciplineditself well into the 1960s, principally through licensing, credentialing,and the award of hospital privileges. As Ameringer points out,the American Medical Association, hardly a radical voice, notedin 1932 that seldom were individual physicians willing "to prosecutea breach of ethics that affects . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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