Read more
Zusatztext This book is a scholarly masterpiece, providing a balanced perspective on the history of medical ethics and morals supported by credible and well incorporated research. Informationen zum 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, including the 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 African American physicians and organized medicine that prompted the board of the AMA to apologize publicly for its past treatment of African American physicians. Klappentext 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. "In this remarkable and important book, Baker reminds us that bioethics did not appear from nowhere, but rather is the most recent incarnation of medical morality: the contemporary version of the codes that have governed medical practice in America since the Puritans." - Raymond de Vries, Bioethics Program, School of Medicine, University of Michigan Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Chapter 1: Introduction: On Medical Ethics and Morality Chapter 2: Midwives' Oaths of Fidelity and Diligence Chapter 3: A Medical Ethics of Fidelity, Chastity and Gentlemanly Honor Chapter 4: The Lecturers: Samuel Bard and Benjamin Rush Chapter 5: Codes of Medical Police and Ethics, 1806-1846 Chapter 6: A National Code of Medical Ethics, 1847 Chapter 7: Professional Medical Ethics 1848-1875: Abortion, Inquisition and Exclusion Chapter 8: The Anti-Code Revolt: Laissez Medical Faire Ethics, 1876-1979 Chapter 9: Medical Ethics and the Research Imperative: 1800-1946 Chapter 10: Explaining The Birth of Bioethics, 1947-1999 ...
