TY - BOOK AU - Baker,Robert TI - Before bioethics: a history of American medical ethics from the colonial period to the bioethics revolution SN - 9780199369508 (ebook) U1 - 174.20973 23 KW - Medical ethics KW - United States KW - History KW - Oxford evidence based title N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index N2 - Baker 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 book tracks the evolution of American medical ethics from colonial midwives and physicians' oaths, to medical society codes and bioethical principles UR - https://go.openathens.net/redirector/vu.edu.au?url=https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199774111.001.0001 ER -