The Cambridge World History of Medical Ethics

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 'medical ethics', and research ethics. Also included are the first global chronology of persons and texts; the first concise biographies of major figures in medical ethics; and the first comprehensive bibliography of the history of medical ethics. An extensive index guides readers to topics, texts, and proper names.

Part I. An Introduction to the History of Medical Ethics; Part II. A Chronology of Medical Ethics Robert B. Baker and Laurence McCullough; Part III. Discourses of Medical Ethics through the Life Cycle; Part IV. Discourses of Religion on Medical Ethics; Part V. The Discourses of Philosophy on Medical Ethics; Part VI. The Discourses of Practitioners on Medical Ethics; Part VII. The Discourses of Bioethics; Part VIII. Discourses on Medical Ethics and Society.

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 American Medical Ethics Revolution (with Arthur L. Caplan, Linda L. Emanuel and Stephen R. Latham, 1999). A four-time recipient of grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, he currently co-directs a grant from the National Institutes of Health Fogarty International Center to train research ethicists in transition societies in Central and Eastern Europe.
Laurence B. McCullough is Professor of Medicine and Medical Ethics and Associate Director for Education in the Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas. He has published ten books and more than 375 scholarly articles and book chapters on the history of medical ethics, the ethics of the major medical specialties, research ethics, and the philosophy of Leibniz. His research has been supported by grants and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Institutes of Health, and the American Council of Learned Societies.