Background

Baker, Robert Bernard was born on December 5, 1937 in New York City. Son of Hal Murray and Freda (Ginsburg) Baker.

Education

Bachelor in History (honorary), City University of New York, 1959. Doctor of Philosophy, University Minnesota, 1967.

Career

Instructor University Minnesota, Minneapolis, 1964-1965. Assistant professor University Iowa, 1965-1969, Wayne State University, Detroit, 1969-1973, Union College, Schnectady, New York, 1973-1980, associate professor New York, 1980-1988, professor, since 1989. Director Center for Bioethics and Clinical Leadership, Union Grad College, since 2001.

Visiting associate professor New York University Medical School, 1981. Visiting scholar Kennedy Institute Ethics, Georgetown University, Washington, 1982, 94. President Iowa Philosophical Society, 1968-1969.

Member Governor's Taskforce on Victimless Crime, Michigan, 1972-1973. Academy coordinator Study of National Health Care Systems, Union College, 1979—2004. Director Computers in Humanities Undergraduate Curriculum, Union College, 1984-1988.

Visiting fellow Center for Bioethics University Pennsylvania, since 1996. Associate Center for Medical Ethics Albany Medical College, 1997—2001, co-director Masters of Bioethics program, since 2000. Chair Alden March Bioethics Institute, 2005-2006.

Project director E-Education in Research Ethics, director Rapaport Everyday Ethics Across the Curriculum Initiative, 2006-2008.

Achievements

• Robert Bernard Baker has been listed as a noteworthy philosophy educator by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

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  • Before Bioethics: A History of American Medical Ethics from the Colonial Period to the Bioethics Revolution

    (Before Bioethics narrates the history of American medical...)

  • The American Medical Ethics Revolution: How the AMA's Code of Ethics Has Transformed Physicians' Relationships to Patients, Professionals, and Society Baker, Robert B. ( Author ) { Hardcover } 1999

    (The American Medical Ethics Revolution: How the AMA's Cod...)

  • Before Bioethics: A History of American Medical Ethics from the Colonial Period to the Bioethics Revolution Baker, Robert ( Author ) { Hardcover } 2013
  • The Codification of Medical Morality: Historical and Philosophical Studies of the Formalization of Western Medical Morality in the Eighteenth and ... Jurisprudence in the Nineteenth Century

    (Like many novel ideas, the idea for this volume and its p...)

  • (Codification of Medical Morality: Anglo-American Medical Ethics and Medical Jurisprudence in the Nineteenth Century Volume 2: Historical and Philosophical Studies of the Formalization of Western Medical Morality in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centurie

    (Like many novel ideas, the idea for this volume and its p...)

  • Cambridge World History of Medical Ethics Baker, Robert B. ( Author ) { Hardcover } 2008
  • Philosophy and Sex by Robert Baker (1984-05-03)
  • Philosophy and Sex by Robert B. Baker (2008-07-09)
  • { THE CODIFICATION OF MEDICAL MORALITY: HISTORICAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL STUDIES OF THE FORMALIZATION OF WESTERN MEDICAL MORALITY IN THE EIGHTEENTH AND NINETEEN (PHILOSOPHY AND MEDICINE #45) } by Baker, Robert (AUTHOR) Mar-31-1993 Hardcover
  • (The Codification of Medical Morality: Medical Ethics and Etiquette in the Eighteenth Century v. 1: Historical and Philosophical Studies of the Formalization of Western Medical Morality in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries) Author: Robert Baker
  • The Cambridge World History of Medical Ethics
  • (The Codification of Medical Morality: Anglo-American Medical Ethics and Medical Jurisprudence in the Nineteenth Century Volume 2: Historical and Philosophical Studies of the Formalization of Western Medical Morality in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Cent
  • (The American Medical Ethics Revolution: How the AMA's Code of Ethics Has Transformed Physicians' Relationships to Patients, Professionals and Society) Author: Robert B. Baker published on (November, 1999)
  • Before Bioethics: A History of American Medical Ethics from the Colonial Period to the Bioethics Revolution 1st Edition by Baker, Robert (2013) Hardcover

Membership

Member American Psychological Association, American Association Historians of Medicine, Hastings Center, American Society Bioethics and Humanities (chair history of medical ethics group since 1998).

Interests

• Avocations: reading, concerts, e-mailing, walking.

Connections

Married Arlene Shiela Bernstein Baker, November 28, 1958. Children: Nathanial Edward, Meredith Harrison.

Father:

Hal Murray Baker

Mother:

Freda (Ginsburg) Baker

Spouse:

Arlene Shiela Bernstein Baker

child:

Meredith Harrison Baker

child:

Nathanial Edward Baker