The Medico-Social Problems Library. VII. The American Academy of Medicine is not responsible for the sentiments exprest in any paper or article presented to it. I 414 A50 1917 PREFACE. The boundary between legislation and medicine is extensiv and extending. With each succeeding session of the legislatures these problems become more varied and complicated. It begins with prescribing the requirements for entering upon the practice of medicine, continues in regulating the practice in important directions after the student has become a physician, as shown by the laws regulating criminal malpractice, prescribing of narcotics and, more recently, by the various forms of welfare insurance. Thus the contact between the physician himself and legislation is important and intimate. Then there are the regulations grupt together under public health laws and the medical questions to be determined in legislating for the care of defectiv classes, which are additional examples of the intimate relationship between medicine and legislation. This volume presents and discusses some of these problems, appeard in the official organ of the 44144 |