Before Bioethics: A History of American Medical Ethics from the Colonial Period to the Bioethics Revolution
The first history of American medical ethics published in more than a half century, Before Bioethics tracks the evolution of American medical ethics from colonial midwives and physicians' oaths to current bioethical controversies over abortion, AIDS, animal rights, and physician-assisted suicide.
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- ISBN: 978-0-19-977411-1
- EAN: 9780199774111
- Produktnummer: 22181988
- Verlag: OXFORD UNIV PR
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
- Seitenangabe: 476 S.
- Masse: H23.6 cm x B15.5 cm x D3.8 cm 780 g
- Gewicht: 780
Über den Autor
Robert Baker is William D. Williams Professor of Philosophy at Union College and Director of the Union Graduate College-Mount Sinai School of Medicine Bioethics Program. A four-time National Endowment for the Humanities awardee, Baker is founding chair of the Affinity Group on the History of Medical Ethics of the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities. He has authored, co-authored, edited or co-edited numerous scholarly articles, reports and books, includingthe American Medical Ethics Revolution and The Cambridge World History of Medical Ethics. Both books were awarded a citation by Choice, the journal of academic libraries, as an outstanding book in the health sciences for their respective years. Baker also co-authored a 2008 report on AfricanAmerican physicians and organized medicine that prompted the board of the AMA to apologize publicly for its past treatment of African American physicians.
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