Virtual Mentor. January 2004, Volume 6, Number 1.

Suggested Reading and Resources

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Resources on Physician Activism

Aftab M, Kolben D, Lurie P, Wolfe SM. Smokescreen: double standards of US tobacco companies in international cigarette labeling. Public Citizen Web site. 1998. Accessed December 8, 2003.

Aftab M, Kolben D, Lurie P. International cigarette labelling practices. Tob Control. 1999;8:368-72.

Agrawal J, Rising J. Resident education and patient safety. Am Fam Physician. 2002;66:1569-1575.

Alexander GC, Sehgal AR. Variation in access to kidney transplantation across dialysis facilities: using process of care measures for quality improvement. Am J Kidney Dis. 2002;40:824-31.

Alexander GC, Sehgal AR. Why hemodialysis patients fail to complete the transplantation process. Am J Kidney Dis. 2001;37:321-8.

American Medical Association. Opinion 1.02 The relation of law and ethics. Code of Medical Ethics, Current Opinions, 2002-2003 edition. Chicago: American Medical Association; 2002:1.

American Medical Association. Principle of Medical Ethics. In: Code ofMedical Ethics Current Opinions, 2002-2003 edition. Chicago: AMA Press; 2002:xii. Available at: http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/category/2512.html. Accessed December 2, 2003.

American Psychiatric Association. Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. 4th ed. Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Association; 1994.

Atkins KM, Roberts AE, Cochran N. How medical students can bring about curricular change. Acad Med. 1998;73:1173-6.

Bagnall J. ERs suffer across Canada; a roundup of events, big and small, that made news this week. The Montreal Gazette. January 8, 2000:B2.

Childress JF. Civil disobedience, conscientious objection, and evasive noncompliance: a framework for the analysis and assessment of illegal actions in health care. Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 1985;10:63-83.

Clark CC, Wynia MK. Professional civil disobedience: a duty arising from trust. (manuscript in preparation).

DeCoster B. Clinical case 3 commentary: physician activism and civil disobedience. Virtual Mentor. January 2003. Accessed January 5, 2003.

Douville A. The new physician as activist. New Physician. 1968;17:209.

Fagel B. Medical student externship as an opportunity to expand the base of medical education: the viewpoint of the Student American Medical Association. JAMA. 1970;213:2059-2061.

Goyal M, Mehta RL, Schneiderman LJ, Sehgal AR. Economic and health consequences of selling a kidney in India. JAMA. 2002;288:1589-93.

Iacopino V, Frank MW, Bauer HM, et al. A population-based assessment of human rights abuses committed against ethnic Albanian refugees from Kosovo. Am J Public Health. 2001;91:2013-8.

International Campaign to Ban Landmines. Available at: http://www.icbl.org . Accessed December 30, 2003.

International Conference on Primary Health Care. Declaration of Alma-Ata. WHO Chron. November 1978;32:428-30.

Keller A, Ford D, Sachs E, et al. From persecution to prison: the detention of asylum seekers. Boston: Physicians for Human Rights; 2003. Accessed December 30, 2003.

Keller A, Groisser S. Domestic violence. In: Link N, Tanner M, eds. The Bellevue Guide to Out-Patient Medicine. London: British Medical Journal Books; 2001.

Keller A. Caring and advocating for torture victims. Lancet. 2002;360(suppl):s55-6.

Kohn LT, Corrigan JM, Donaldson MS, eds; Committee on Quality of Health Care in America, Institute of Medicine. To Err is Human: Building a Safer Health System. Washington DC: National Academies Press; 2000. Accessed December 2, 2003.

Landers SH, Sehgal AR. How do physicians lobby their members of Congress? Arch of Intern Med. 2000;160:3248-51.

Lu HU, Passik SD, Portenoy RK. Management of chronic pain in the patients with substance abuse. In: Aranoff GM, ed. Evaluation and Treatment of Chronic Pain. 3rd ed. Baltimore: Williams and Wilkins, 1998:421-429.

Macdermid A. Tobacco firms under fire. The Glasgow Herald. January 6, 2000:5.

McGarvey M, Mullan F, Sharfstein S. A study in medical action—the student health organizations. N Engl J Med. 1968;279:74-80.

Merchen TD, Champion HC. The AMA-MSS: leading the charge for change. JAMA. 1996;276:1438.

Miller NS, Gold, MS, Smith DE. Manual of Therapeutics for Addictions. New York: Wiley-Liss, Inc; 1997.

Miller NS, Greenfeld A. Patient characteristics and risk factors of development of dependence on hydrocodone and oxycodone. Am J Ther. 2003. [In press].

Monroe N. US tobacco warnings not exported. Austin American Statesman. September 10, 1998:A8.

Mullan F. A new mood in medical students. Medical Opinion and Review. March 1968.

Mullan F. The new dynamic. Amer J Dis Child. 1968;116:505.

Neighbors K, Oraka C, Shih L, Lurie P. Awareness and utilization of the hepatitis B vaccine among young men in the Ann Arbor area who have sex with men. J Am Coll Health. 1999;47:173-8.

Peabody JW. Measuring the social responsiveness of medical schools: setting the standards. Acad Med. 1999;74:S59-68.

Physicans for a National Health Program. Accessed December 30, 2003.

Rawls J. Theory of Justice. Oxford, England: The Clarendon Press; 1972;363.

Rothman DJ. Medical professionalism--focusing on the real issues. N Engl J Med. 2000;342:1284-6.

Runciman WB, Merry AF, Tito F. Error, blame, and the law in health care—an antipodean perspective. Ann Intern Med. 2003;138:974-979.

Saxton J, United States Congress Joint Economic Committee. Liability for medical malpractice: issues and evidence. May 2003. Accessed December 8, 2003.

Schlesinger M. A loss of faith: the sources of reduced political legitimacy for the American medical profession. Milbank Q. 2002;80:185-235.

Schuckit MA. Drug And Alcohol Abuse: A Clinical Guide To Diagnosis And Treatment. 5th ed. New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers; 2000.

Sehgal AR, Dor A, Tsai AC. Morbidity and cost implications of inadequate hemodialysis. Am J Kidney Dis. 2001;37:1223-31.

Sheth T. Study finds vaccine rates low among local gay men. Michigan Daily. February 10, 1999:3.

Soros Advocacy Fellowship. Accessed December 30, 2003.

Starr P. The Social Transformation of American Medicine. New York: Basic Books; 1982.

Stevens R. American Medicine and the Public Interest. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press; 1971.

Stover E, Keller A, Coby J, Sopheap S. The medical and social consequences of landmines in Cambodia. JAMA.1994;272:331-36.

Studdert DM, Brennan T. No-fault compensation for medical injuries: the prospect for error prevention. JAMA. 2001;286:217-223.

Study shows many local gay men not getting beneficial vaccine. Ann Arbor News. January 28, 1999:D1.

Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. National household survey on drug abuse. 2001. Accessed December 30, 2003.

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights. In: Twenty-Five Human Rights Documents. New York, NY: Center For the Study of Human Rights, Columbia University; 1994.

Tomlinson T. Clinical case 3 commentary: physician activism and civil disobedience. Virtual Mentor. January 2003. Accessed January 5, 2003.

Tran T, Sengupta S, Lurie P, Goodman R, Wolfe S. Violations of exhibiting rules at the 2002 American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting. Presented at: 26th Annual Society for General Internal Medicine. Vancouver, British Columbia; 2002.

Tsai AC, Lurie P, Sehgal AR. An outbreak of web sites selling ciprofloxacin following an outbreak of anthrax by mail. Am J Med. 2002;113:424-7.

Tsai AC, Tamayo-Sarver JH, Cydulka RK, Baker DW. Declining payments for emergency department care, 1996-1998. Ann Emerg Med. 2003;41:299-308.

Tsai AC. Concern about drug reps. Health Aff (Millwood). 2002;21:296-7.

Tsai AC. Conflicts between commercial and scientific interests in pharmaceutical advertising for medical journals. Int J Health Serv. 2003;33:751-68.

Tsai AC. Free software and physician profiling. JAMA. 2002; 287:45.

Tsai AC. Policies to regulate gifts to physicians from industry. JAMA. 2003;290:1776.

US tobacco firms mislead foreigners, Nader allies say. Richmond Times-Dispatch. September 10, 1998.

Vlahov D, Des Jarlais DC, Goosby E, et al. Needle exchange programs for the prevention of human immunodeficiency virus infection: epidemiology and policy. American Journal of Epidemiology. 2001;154(suppl 12):S70-S77.

Weisskopf M, Priest D. AMA steps back from major part of Clinton health care plan. Washington Post. December 8, 1993:A3.

White C. Canada plans stronger health warnings on cigarette packs. BMJ. 2000;320:140.

White KL. Health care research: old wine in new bottles. Pharos. 1993;56:12-6.

Whitney SN, Brown BW Jr, Brody H, Alcser KH, Bachman JG, Greely HT. Views of United States physicians and members of the American Medical Association House of Delegates on physician-assisted suicide. J Gen Intern Med. 2001;16:290-296.

Wynia MK, Latham SR, Kao AC, Berg JW, Emanuel LL. Medical professionalism in society. N Engl J Med. 1999;341:1612-1616.