Before bioethics : a history of American medical ethics from the colonial period to the bioethics revolution / Robert Baker.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Baker, Robert, 1937- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medical ethics--United States--History.

Medical ethics.

Medicine--United States--History.

Medicine.

Medicine--History--18th century.

Ethics, Medical--history.

History, 18th Century.

History, 19th Century.

History, 20th Century.

United States.

Medical Subjects:

Ethics, Medical--history.

History, 18th Century.

History, 19th Century.

History, 20th Century.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (489 p.)

Other Title:

History of American medical ethics from the colonial period to the bioethics revolution

American medical ethics from the colonial period to the bioethics revolution

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Baker narrates the history of American medical ethics from its colonial origins to current bioethical controversies over abortion, AIDS, animal rights, and physician-assisted suicide. The book tracks the evolution of American medical ethics from colonial midwives and physicians' oaths, to medical society codes and bioethical principles.

Contents:

Introduction : on medical ethics and morality

Midwives oaths of fidelity and diligence

A medical ethics of fidelity, chastity and gentlemanly honor

The lecturers : Samuel Bard and Benjamin Rush

Codes of medical police and ethics, 1806-1846

A national code of medical ethics, 1847

Professional medical ethics 1848-1875 : abortion, inquisition and exclusion

The anti-code revolt : laissez medical faire ethics, 1876-1979

Medical ethics and the research imperative, 1800-1946

Explaining the birth of bioethics, 1947-1999.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-936950-X

0-19-977534-6

OCLC:

858601669