Making Modern Medical Ethics: How African Americans, Anti-Nazis, Bureaucrats, Feminists, Veterans, and Whistleblowing Moralists Created Bioethics

by Robert Baker

The little-known stories of the people responsible for what we know today as modern medical ethics.

In Making Modern Medical Ethics, Robert Baker tells the counter history of the birth of bioethics, bringing to the fore the stories of the dissenters and whistleblowers who challenged the establishment. Drawing on his earlier work on moral revolutions and the history of medical ethics, Robert Baker traces the history of modern medical...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262547376
• ISBN13: 9780262547376
• Release Date: February 2024
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.9" x 8.9"