Before bioethics : a history of American medical ethics from the colonial period to the bioethics revolution / Robert Baker.
By: Baker, Robert [author].
c2013Description: xi, 476 p. ; 25 cm.ISBN: 9780199774111 (hardcover : alk. paper).Subject(s): Ethics, Medical -- history -- United States | History, 18th Century -- United States | History, 19th Century -- United States | History, 20th Century -- United StatesGenre/Form: Print books.DDC classification: 174.2Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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On Shelf | R724 .B184 2013 (Browse shelf) | Available | AU0000000002361 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.