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Robert B. Baker (Ed.) - The Cambridge World History of Medical Ethics - 9780521888790 - V9780521888790
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The Cambridge World History of Medical Ethics

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Description for The Cambridge World History of Medical Ethics hardcover. The Cambridge World History of Medical Ethics provides the first global history of medical ethics. Editor(s): Baker, Robert B.; McCullough, Laurence B. Num Pages: 904 pages. BIC Classification: MBDC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 288 x 226 x 46. Weight in Grams: 2314.
The Cambridge World History of Medical Ethics is the first comprehensive scholarly account of the global history of medical ethics. Offering original interpretations of the field by leading bioethicists and historians of medicine, it will serve as the essential point of departure for future scholarship in the field. The book reconceptualises the history of medical ethics through the creation of new categories, including the life cycle; discourses of religion, philosophy, and bioethics; and the relationship between medical ethics and the state, which includes a historical reexamination of the ethics of apartheid, colonialism, communism, health policy, imperialism, militarism, Nazi medicine, Nazi ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
904
Condition
New
Number of Pages
904
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780521888790
SKU
V9780521888790
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99-4

About Robert B. Baker (Ed.)
Robert B. Baker is William D. Williams professor of philosophy at Union College, New York and director of the Union Graduate College-Mount Sinai School of Medicine Bioethics Program. Founding chair of the History of Medical Ethics Affinity Group of the American Society of Bioethics and Humanities, Baker is the author and editor of numerous articles and books, including the award-winning ... Read more

Reviews for The Cambridge World History of Medical Ethics
'I'm pleased to have this volume on my bookshelf; and when a student comes in wondering about what health practitioners in the ninth- to fourteenth-century Middle East thought about psychosomatic aspects of disease, I will know just where to look.' Kirstin Borgerson, Isis

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