Making Modern Medical Ethics
How African Americans, Anti-Nazis, Bureaucrats, Feminists, Veterans, and Whistleblowing Moralists Created Bioethics
Published on 20. February 2024
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368 pages
978-0-262-54737-6 (ISBN)
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"A counter history of the birth of bioethics, which focuses on the dissenters and whistleblowers who challenged law and institutions rather than simply the development of new technologies"--
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English
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Cambridge (Massachusetts)
United States
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MIT Press Ltd
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Height: 225 mm
Width: 149 mm
Thickness: 26 mm
Weight
436 gr
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978-0-262-54737-6 (9780262547376)
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Making Modern Medical Ethics
How African Americans, Anti-Nazis, Bureaucrats, Feminists, Veterans, and Whistleblowing Moralists Created Bioethics
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Robert Baker is William D. Williams Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at Union College in Schenectady, New York, and Professor of Bioethics and Founding Director (Emeritus) of the Bioethics Program at Clarkson University–Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City. He is the author of The Structure of Moral Revolutions (MIT Press) and Before Bioethics.
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Contents
Preface ix
Acknowledgments xv
Chronology of Events Referenced xvii
Acronyms, Jargon, and Non-English Words xxv
Who’s Who: People Referenced xxix
1 Moralists and True Scandals: Medical Ethics during the Pre- and Interwar Periods 1
2 Nazi Medical Ethics 11
3 The Nuremberg Doctors Trial and the Nuremberg Code 23
4 The Declaration of Geneva: Old Things Become New 37
5 The Declaration of Helsinki: Negotiating Practical Principles for Research on Human Subjects 53
6 Kelsey, Pappworth, and Beecher: Moral Awakenings 63
7 Protesting the USPHS’s Syphilis Study: Gibson, Schatz, Buxtun, and Jenkins 103
8 Scientistic Medical Paternalism and Its Discontents 125
9 Reforming Modern Medical Ethics 145
10 The Bioethical Turn in Modern Medical Ethics 163
11 Making the Unseen Visible: A Metahistorical Analysis of Why the Role of Anti-Nazism and the Names of Significant Blacks, Bureaucrats, Feminists, Veterans, and Most Whistleblowing Moralists Are Absent from, or Minimally Noted in, Standard Histories of Bioethics 191
Epilogue 207
Appendix 217
Notes 229
Bibliography 277
Index 301
Preface ix
Acknowledgments xv
Chronology of Events Referenced xvii
Acronyms, Jargon, and Non-English Words xxv
Who’s Who: People Referenced xxix
1 Moralists and True Scandals: Medical Ethics during the Pre- and Interwar Periods 1
2 Nazi Medical Ethics 11
3 The Nuremberg Doctors Trial and the Nuremberg Code 23
4 The Declaration of Geneva: Old Things Become New 37
5 The Declaration of Helsinki: Negotiating Practical Principles for Research on Human Subjects 53
6 Kelsey, Pappworth, and Beecher: Moral Awakenings 63
7 Protesting the USPHS’s Syphilis Study: Gibson, Schatz, Buxtun, and Jenkins 103
8 Scientistic Medical Paternalism and Its Discontents 125
9 Reforming Modern Medical Ethics 145
10 The Bioethical Turn in Modern Medical Ethics 163
11 Making the Unseen Visible: A Metahistorical Analysis of Why the Role of Anti-Nazism and the Names of Significant Blacks, Bureaucrats, Feminists, Veterans, and Most Whistleblowing Moralists Are Absent from, or Minimally Noted in, Standard Histories of Bioethics 191
Epilogue 207
Appendix 217
Notes 229
Bibliography 277
Index 301