Author: Robert BakerPublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9780801861703
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
D.--from the Introduction "Canadian Bulletin of Medical History"
The American Medical Ethics Revolution
Author: Robert BakerPublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9780801861703
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
D.--from the Introduction "Canadian Bulletin of Medical History"
Before Bioethics
Author: Robert BakerPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199774110
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 489
Book Description
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.
The Structure of Moral Revolutions
Author: Robert BakerPublisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262043084
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 335
Book Description
A theoretical account of moral revolutions, illustrated by historical cases that include the criminalization and decriminalization of abortion and the patient rebellion against medical paternalism. We live in an age of moral revolutions in which the once morally outrageous has become morally acceptable, and the formerly acceptable is now regarded as reprehensible. Attitudes toward same-sex love, for example, and the proper role of women, have undergone paradigm shifts over the last several decades. In this book, Robert Baker argues that these inversions are the product of moral revolutions that follow a pattern similar to that of the scientific revolutions analyzed by Thomas Kuhn in his influential book, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. After laying out the theoretical terrain, Baker develops his argument with examples of moral reversals from the recent and distant past. He describes the revolution, led by the utilitarian philosopher Jeremy Bentham, that transformed the postmortem dissection of human bodies from punitive desecration to civic virtue; the criminalization of abortion in the nineteenth century and its decriminalization in the twentieth century; and the invention of a new bioethics paradigm in the 1970s and 1980s, supporting a patient-led rebellion against medical paternalism. Finally, Baker reflects on moral relativism, arguing that the acceptance of “absolute” moral truths denies us the diversity of moral perspectives that permit us to alter our morality in response to changing environments.
The Cambridge World History of Medical Ethics
Author: Robert B. BakerPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521888794
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Cambridge World History of Medical Ethics provides the first global history of medical ethics.
Code of Medical Ethics of the American Medical Association
Author: American Medical Association. Council on Ethical and Judicial AffairsPublisher: American Medical Association Press
ISBN: 9781622025534
Category : Bioethics
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This new edition of the Code of Medical Ethics is the culmination of an eight-year project to modernize the Code's ethical guidance for relevance, clarity and consistency. It represents the first comprehensive review of the Code in more than half a century. The features of this significantly revised edition will allow physicians to more easily incorporate the Code into their daily practice of medicine. The Code of Medical Ethics was adopted at the first AMA meeting in 1847. Much in medicine has changed in 169 years, but this founding document-the first uniform code of ethics of its kind-is still the basis of an explicit social contract between physicians and their patients. It is regularly cited as the medical profession's authoritative voice in legal opinions and in scholarly journals. It should be in every medical library and practice office.
A Short History of Medical Ethics
Author: Albert R. JonsenPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195134559
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 169
Book Description
A physician says, "I have an ethical obligation never to cause the death of a patient," another responds, "My ethical obligation is to relieve pain even if the patient dies." The current argument over the role of physicians in assisting patients to die constantly refers to the ethical duties of the profession. References to the Hippocratic Oath are often heard. Many modern problems, from assisted suicide to accessible health care, raise questions about the traditional ethics of medicine and the medical profession. However, few know what the traditional ethics are and how they came into being. This book provides a brief tour of the complex story of medical ethics evolved over centuries in both Western and Eastern culture. It sets this story in the social and cultural contexts in which the work of healing was practiced and suggests that, behind the many different perceptions about the ethical duties of physicians, certain themes appear constantly, and may be relevant to modern debates. The book begins with the Hippocratic medicine of ancient Greece, moves through the Middle Ages, Renaissance and Enlightenment in Europe, and the long history of Indian 7nd Chinese medicine, ending as the problems raised modern medical science and technology challenge the settled ethics of the long tradition.
Principles of Medical Ethics of the American Medical Association
Author: American Medical AssociationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medical ethics
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
Code of medical ethics of the American Medical Association
Author: American Medical AssociationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
The Cambridge World History of Medical Ethics
Author: Robert B. BakerPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9781108708760
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 924
Book Description
The Cambridge World History of Medical Ethics is the first comprehensive scholarly account of the global history of medical ethics. Offering original interpretations of the field by leading bioethicists and historians of medicine, it will serve as the essential point of departure for future scholarship in the field. The volumes reconceptualize the history of medical ethics through the creation of new categories, including the life cycle; discourses of religion, philosophy, and bioethics; and the relationship between medical ethics and the state, which includes a historical reexamination of the ethics of apartheid, colonialism, communism, health policy, imperialism, militarism, Nazi medicine, Nazi "medical ethics," and research ethics. Also included are the first global chronology of persons and texts; the first concise biographies of major figures in medical ethics; and the first comprehensive bibliography of the history of medical ethics. An extensive index guides readers to topics, texts, and proper names.
The Structure of Moral Revolutions
Author: Robert BakerPublisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262355337
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 335
Book Description
A theoretical account of moral revolutions, illustrated by historical cases that include the criminalization and decriminalization of abortion and the patient rebellion against medical paternalism. We live in an age of moral revolutions in which the once morally outrageous has become morally acceptable, and the formerly acceptable is now regarded as reprehensible. Attitudes toward same-sex love, for example, and the proper role of women, have undergone paradigm shifts over the last several decades. In this book, Robert Baker argues that these inversions are the product of moral revolutions that follow a pattern similar to that of the scientific revolutions analyzed by Thomas Kuhn in his influential book, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. After laying out the theoretical terrain, Baker develops his argument with examples of moral reversals from the recent and distant past. He describes the revolution, led by the utilitarian philosopher Jeremy Bentham, that transformed the postmortem dissection of human bodies from punitive desecration to civic virtue; the criminalization of abortion in the nineteenth century and its decriminalization in the twentieth century; and the invention of a new bioethics paradigm in the 1970s and 1980s, supporting a patient-led rebellion against medical paternalism. Finally, Baker reflects on moral relativism, arguing that the acceptance of “absolute” moral truths denies us the diversity of moral perspectives that permit us to alter our morality in response to changing environments.