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Baker, Robert Bernard was born on December 5, 1937 in New York City. Son of Hal Murray and Freda (Ginsburg) Baker.
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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
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Before Bioethics narrates the history of American medical ethics from its colonial origins to current bioethical controversies over abortion, AIDS, animal rights, and physician-assisted suicide. This comprehensive history tracks the evolution of American medical ethics over four centuries, from colonial midwives and physicians' oaths to medical society codes, through the bioethics revolution. Applying the concept of "morally disruptive technologies," it analyzes the impact of the stethoscope on conceptions of fetal life and the criminalization of abortion, and the impact of the ventilator on our conception of death and the treatment of the dying. The narrative offers tales of those whose lives were affected by the medical ethics of their era: unwed mothers executed by puritans because midwives found them with stillborn babies; the unlikely trio-an Irishman, a Sephardic Jew and in-the-closet gay public health reformer-who drafted the American Medical Association's code of ethics but received no credit for their achievement, and the founder of American gynecology celebrated during his own era but condemned today because he perfected his surgical procedures on un-anesthetized African American slave women. The book concludes by exploring the reasons underlying American society's empowerment of a hodgepodge of ex-theologians, humanist clinicians and researchers, lawyers and philosophers-the bioethicists-as authorities able to address research ethics scandals and the ethical problems generated by morally disruptive technologies. To access the companion website for Before Bioethics: A History of American Medical Ethics from the Colonial Period to the Bioethics Revolution, please visit: http://global.oup.com/us/companion.websites/9780199774111/
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(Like many novel ideas, the idea for this volume and its p...)
Like many novel ideas, the idea for this volume and its predecessor arose over lunch in the cafeteria of the old Wellcome Institute. On an atternoon in Sept- ber 1988, Dorothy and Roy Porter, and I, sketched out a plan for a set of conf- ences in which scholars from a variety of disciplines would explore the emergence of modern medical ethics in the English-speaking world: from its pre-history in the quarrels that arose as gentlemanly codes of etiquette and honor broke down under the pressure of the eighteenth-century "sick trade," to the Enlightenment ethics of John Gregory and Thomas Percival, to the American appropriation process that culminated in the American Medical Association's 1847 Code of Ethics, and to the British turn to medical jurisprudence in the 1858 Medical Act. Roy Porter formally presented our idea as a plan for two back-to-back c- ferences to the Wellcome Trust, and I presented it to the editors of the PHI- LOSOPHY AND MEDICINE series, H. Tristram Engeihardt, Jr. and Stuart Spicker. The reception from both parties was enthusiastic and so, with the financial backing of the former and a commitment to publication from the latter, Roy Porter, ably assisted by Frieda Hauser and Steven Emberton, - ganized two conferences. The first was held at the Wellcome Institute in - cember 1989; the second was sponsored by the Wellcome, but was actually held in the National Hospital, in December 1990.
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Baker, Robert Bernard was born on December 5, 1937 in New York City. Son of Hal Murray and Freda (Ginsburg) Baker.
Bachelor in History (honorary), City University of New York, 1959. Doctor of Philosophy, University Minnesota, 1967.
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.
(Before Bioethics narrates the history of American medical...)
(The American Medical Ethics Revolution: How the AMA's Cod...)
(Like many novel ideas, the idea for this volume and its p...)
(Like many novel ideas, the idea for this volume and its p...)
Member American Psychological Association, American Association Historians of Medicine, Hastings Center, American Society Bioethics and Humanities (chair history of medical ethics group since 1998).
Married Arlene Shiela Bernstein Baker, November 28, 1958. Children: Nathanial Edward, Meredith Harrison.