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5Response to Commentators on “A Draft Model Aggregated Code of Ethics for Bioethicists”American Journal of Bioethics 5 (5). 2005.
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17Bias in journalistic accounts of embryo research reconsideredAmerican Journal of Bioethics 4 (1). 2004.This Article does not have an abstract
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87The relationship between moral philosophy and medical ethics reconsideredKennedy Institute of Ethics Journal 17 (3): 271-276. 2007.: Medical ethics often is treated as applied ethics, that is, the application of moral philosophy to ethical issues in medicine. In an earlier paper, we examined instances of moral philosophy's influence on medical ethics. We found the applied ethics model inadequate and sketched an alternative model. On this model, practitioners seeking to change morality "appropriate" concepts and theory fragments from moral philosophy to valorize and justify their innovations. Goldilocks-like, five commentato…Read more
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63On Being a Bioethicist: A Review of John H. Evans Playing God?: Human Genetic Engineering and the Rationalization of Public Bioethical Debate (review)American Journal of Bioethics 2 (2): 65-69. 2002.(2002). On Being a Bioethicist: A Review of John H. Evans Playing God?: Human Genetic Engineering and the Rationalization of Public Bioethical Debate. The American Journal of Bioethics: Vol. 2, No. 2, pp. 65-69
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14Erasing Blackness From BioethicsAmerican Journal of Bioethics 22 (3): 33-35. 2022.February is Black History Month and so healthcare practitioners will soon rummage history books for information about famous African Americans, like Onesimus, the African slave who...
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72A theory of international bioethics: Multiculturalism, postmodernism, and the bankruptcy of fundamentalismKennedy Institute of Ethics Journal 8 (3): 201-231. 1998.In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:A Theory of International Bioethics: Multiculturalism, Postmodernism, and the Bankruptcy of Fundamentalism 1Robert Baker (bio)AbstractThis first of two articles analyzing the justifiability of international bioethical codes and of cross-cultural moral judgments reviews “moral fundamentalism,” the theory that cross-cultural moral judgments and international bioethical codes are justified by certain “basic” or “fundamental” moral princ…Read more
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34Negotiating international bioethics: A response to Tom Beauchamp and Ruth MacklinKennedy Institute of Ethics Journal 8 (4): 423-453. 1998.In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Negotiating International Bioethics: A Response to Tom Beauchamp and Ruth MacklinRobert Baker (bio)AbstractCan the bioethical theories that have served American bioethics so well, serve international bioethics as well? In two papers in the previous issue of the Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal, I contend that the form of principlist fundamentalism endorsed by American bioethicists like Tom Beauchamp and Ruth Macklin will not play …Read more
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31A theory of international bioethics: The negotiable and the non-negotiableKennedy Institute of Ethics Journal 8 (3): 233-273. 1998.In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:A Theory of International Bioethics: The Negotiable and the Non-NegotiableRobert Baker (bio)AbstractThe preceding article in this issue of the Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal presents the argument that “moral fundamentalism,” the position that international bioethics rests on “basic” or “fundamental” moral principles that are universally accepted in all eras and cultures, collapses under a variety of multicultural and postmodern …Read more
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77The American medical ethics revolution: how the AMA's code of ethics has transformed physicians' relationships to patients, professionals, and society (edited book)Johns Hopkins University Press. 1999.The American Medical Association enacted its Code of Ethics in 1847, the first such national codification. In this volume, a distinguished group of experts from the fields of medicine, bioethics, and history of medicine reflect on the development of medical ethics in the United States, using historical analyses as a springboard for discussions of the problems of the present, including what the editors call "a sense of moral crisis precipitated by the shift from a system of fee-for-service medici…Read more