{"product_id":"making-modern-medical-ethics-isbn-9780262547376","title":"Making Modern Medical Ethics","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe little-known stories of the people responsible for what we know today as modern medical ethics.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eMaking Modern Medical Ethics, \u003c\/i\u003eRobert 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 ethics and its bioethical turn to the moral insurrections incited by the many unsung dissenters and whistleblowers: African American civil rights leaders, Jewish Americans harboring Holocaust memories, feminists, women, and Anglo-American physicians and healthcare professionals who were veterans of the World Wars, the Cold War, and the Vietnam War.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe standard narrative for bioethics typically emphasizes the morally disruptive medical technologies of the latter part of the twentieth century, such as the dialysis machine, the electroencephalograph, and the ventilator, as they created the need to reconsider traditional notions of medical ethics. Baker, however, tells a fresh narrative, one that has historically been neglected (e.g., the story of the medical veterans who founded an international medical organization to rescue medicine and biomedical research from the scandal of Nazi medicine), and also reveals the penalties that moral change agents paid (e.g., the stubborn bureaucrat who was demoted for her insistence on requiring and enforcing research subjects’ informed consent). Analyzing major statements of modern medical ethics from the 1946–1947 Nuremberg Doctors Trials and Nuremberg Code to A Patient’s Bill of Rights, \u003ci\u003eMaking Modern Medical Ethics\u003c\/i\u003e is a winning history of just how respect and autonomy for patients and research subjects came to be codified.Contents\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface ix\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments xv\u003cbr\u003e Chronology of Events Referenced xvii\u003cbr\u003e Acronyms, Jargon, and Non-English Words xxv\u003cbr\u003e Who’s Who: People Referenced xxix\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1 Moralists and True Scandals: Medical Ethics during the Pre- and Interwar Periods 1\u003cbr\u003e 2 Nazi Medical Ethics 11\u003cbr\u003e 3 The Nuremberg Doctors Trial and the Nuremberg Code 23\u003cbr\u003e 4 The Declaration of Geneva: Old Things Become New 37\u003cbr\u003e 5 The Declaration of Helsinki: Negotiating Practical Principles for Research on Human Subjects 53\u003cbr\u003e 6 Kelsey, Pappworth, and Beecher: Moral Awakenings 63\u003cbr\u003e 7 Protesting the USPHS’s Syphilis Study: Gibson, Schatz, Buxtun, and Jenkins 103\u003cbr\u003e 8 Scientistic Medical Paternalism and Its Discontents 125\u003cbr\u003e 9 Reforming Modern Medical Ethics 145\u003cbr\u003e 10 The Bioethical Turn in Modern Medical Ethics 163\u003cbr\u003e 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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEpilogue 207\u003cbr\u003e Appendix 217\u003cbr\u003e Notes 229\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography 277\u003cbr\u003e Index 301“A brilliant counter-history to the canonical triumphalist histories of the birth of bioethics. Highlights the role of outsiders and misfits in creating the space in which modern bioethics could eventually establish itself. A must read for those of us too young to remember.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Søren Holm, Professor of Bioethics, Centre for Social Ethics and Policy, University of Manchester, UK\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Skewering the prevailing presumption that bioethics is the invention of the American medical establishment, Baker nimbly explores the margins of its history where moralists, malcontents, and minorities reign. Their bios are scintillating, and their astonishing contributions turn the history of bioethics inside out. Baker's book is as close to a bioethics page-turner as I have ever read.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Michael L. Gross, Professor of Political Science, The University of Haifa, Israel\u003c\/b\u003eRobert 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 \u003ci\u003eThe Structure of Moral Revolutions\u003c\/i\u003e (MIT Press) and \u003ci\u003eBefore Bioethics\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"The MIT Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46302354145509,"sku":"NP9780262547376","price":55.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780262547376.jpg?v=1767732166","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/making-modern-medical-ethics-isbn-9780262547376","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}