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Robert Baker

Union CollegeClarkson University
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  • Union College
    Department of Philosophy
    Retired faculty
  • Clarkson University
    Non tenure-track faculty
Potsdam, New York, United States of America
Areas of Specialization
Experimental Philosophy: Bioethics
Value Theory
Areas of Interest
Biomedical Ethics
Medical Ethics
Value Theory
Biomedical Ethics, Miscellaneous
  • All publications (37)
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    Bioethics and Human Rights: A Historical Perspective
    Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 10 (3): 241-252. 2001.
    Bioethics and human rights were conceived in the aftermath of the Holocaust, when moral outrage reenergized the outmoded concepts of and renaming them and to give them new purpose. Originally, the principles of bioethics were a means for protecting human rights, but through a historical accident, bioethical principles came to be considered as fundamental. In this paper I reflect on the parallel development and accidental divorce of bioethics and human rights to urge their reconciliation
    Biomedical EthicsHuman Rights
  •  96
    The Significance of the ASBH's Code of Ethics for Healthcare Ethics Consultants
    American Journal of Bioethics 15 (5): 52-54. 2015.
    A decade ago some members of the American Society for Bioethics and the Humanities (ASBH) concluded that the society's reluctance to develop a code of professional ethics, although a tolerable anom...
    Biomedical EthicsMedical Ethics
  •  84
    The Efficacy of Professional Ethics The AMA Code of Ethis in Historical and Current Perspective
    with Linda Emanuel
    Hastings Center Report 30 (4). 2000.
    Biomedical EthicsProfessional EthicsMedia Ethics
  •  117
    Professional Integrity and Global Budgeting
    Professional Ethics, a Multidisciplinary Journal 2 (1-2): 3-34. 1993.
    Applied EthicsInternational EthicsProfessional EthicsIntegrity
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    Response to Commentators on “A Draft Model Aggregated Code of Ethics for Bioethicists”
    American Journal of Bioethics 5 (5). 2005.
    Biomedical EthicsMedical Ethics
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    International Bioethics and Human Rights: Reflections on a Proposed Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights
    Politics and Ethics Review 1 (2): 188-196. 2005.
    Human RightsRights, MiscSocial Ethics
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    Bias in journalistic accounts of embryo research reconsidered
    American Journal of Bioethics 4 (1). 2004.
    Biomedical EthicsReproductive Ethics
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