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Before Bioethics - A History of American Medical Ethics from the Colonial Period to the Bioethics Revolution (Hardcover)
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Before Bioethics - A History of American Medical Ethics from the Colonial Period to the Bioethics Revolution (Hardcover)
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Before Bioethics narrates the history of American medical ethics
from its colonial origins to current bioethical controversies over
abortion, AIDS, animal rights, and physician-assisted suicide. The
first history of American medical ethics published in more than a
half century, Before Bioethics tracks the evolution of American
medical ethics from colonial midwives and physicians' oaths, to
medical society codes and bioethical principles. Applying the
concept of "morally disruptive technologies," it analyzes the
impact of the stethoscope on conceptions of fetal life and the
criminalization of abortion, and the impact of the ventilator on
our conception of death and the treatment of the dying. The
narrative offers tales of those whose lives were affected by the
medical ethics of their era: unwed mothers executed by puritans
because midwives found them with stillborn babies; the unlikely
trio-an Irishman, a Sephardic Jew and in-the-closet gay public
health reformer-who drafted the American Medical Association's code
of ethics but received no credit for their achievement, and the
founder of American gynecology celebrated during his own era but
condemned today because he perfected his surgical procedures on
un-anesthetized African American slave women. The book concludes by
exploring the reasons underlying American society's empowerment of
a hodgepodge of ex-theologians, humanist clinicians and
researchers, lawyers and philosophers-the bioethicists-as
authorities able to address research ethics scandals and the
ethical problems generated by morally disruptive technologies.
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