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Before Bioethics: A History of American Medical Ethics from the Colonial Period to the Bioethics Revolution
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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.
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- Authors
- Baker, R.
- Corresponding author
- Baker, Robert
- ORCID
- Baker, Robert
- Venue
- Oxford University Press eBooks
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Published
- 2013-10-07
- OpenAlex
- W4235214219
- Cited by
- 96
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2026: 4 · 2025: 5 · 2024: 10 · 2023: 12 · 2022: 13 · 2021: 3 · 2020: 3 · 2019: 8 · 2018: 23 · 2017: 3 · 2016: 6 · 2015: 4 · 2014: 2
- FWCI
- 6.46
- Type
- book
- Language
- zh
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Oxford University Press eBooks (publishedVersion)
- Digital Access to Libraries (Université catholique de Louvain (UCL), l'Université de Namur (UNamur) and the Université Saint-Louis (USL-B)) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Ethics and bioethics in healthcare
- Social Sciences › Law › Medical and Health Sciences Research
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History and Philosophy of Science › History of Science and Medicine
- Keywords
- history of medical ethics, bioethics, colonial medicine, midwives, physician oath, bioethical principles, abortion, AIDS, animal rights, physician-assisted suicide
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