TY  - JOUR
T1  - DO we obey the code of ethics.
AU  - ECCLES RG
Y1  - 1899/12/30
N1  - 10.1001/jama.1899.92450790010001e
JO  - Journal of the American Medical Association
SP  - 1646
EP  - 1648
VL  - XXXIII
IS  - 27
N2  - The laws of ethics are as firmly fixed in the nature of things as are the laws of astronomy or of chemistry. Disobedience to their mandates is as certain to bring disaster to those who disobey as disregard of the law of gravity brings pain and suffering to those who try to walk over a precipice. Every true law of ethics is fundamentally fixed in the make-up of society and is in no sense a mere empiric order of things without adequate reason. Whenever we disobey such a law we do so at our peril. Good conduct is conduct that comports itself in such a way as to lead to the highest social good. It is conduct that harmonizes with the best interests of society. When certain lines of conduct are interdicted by our fellows we may be quite sure that it is now, or at
SN  - 0002-9955
M3  - doi: 10.1001/jama.1899.92450790010001e
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1899.92450790010001e
ER  -