Making Modern Medical Ethics
How African Americans, Anti-Nazis, Bureaucrats, Feminists, Veterans, and Whistleblowing Moralists Created Bioethics
- Paperback
368 pages
- Release Date
26 March 2024
Summary
In Making Modern Medical Ethics, Robert Baker tells the counter history of the birth of bioethics, bringing to the fore the stories of the dissenters and whistleblowers who challenged the establishment. Drawing on his earlier work on moral revolutions and the history of medical ethics, Robert Baker traces the history of modern medical ethics and its bioethical turn to the moral insurrections incited by the many unsung dissenters and whistleblowers: African American civil rights leade…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262547376 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0262547376 |
| Author: | Robert Baker |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 368 |
| Release Date: | 26 March 2024 |
| Weight: | 369g |
| Dimensions: | 152mm x 229mm |
| Series: | Basic Bioethics |
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Robert Baker
Robert Baker is William D. Williams Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at Union College in Schenectady, New York, and Professor of Bioethics and Founding Director (Emeritus) of the Bioethics Program at Clarkson University-Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City. He is the author of The Structure of Moral Revolutions (MIT Press) and Before Bioethics.
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