A History of Medical Ethics

FAIN: RZ-20525-99

Baylor College of Medicine (Houston, TX 77030-3498)
Laurence B. McCullough (Project Director: September 1998 to December 2003)

The preparation of a one-volume history of medical ethics from antiquity to the twentieth century that will be global and comparative in its treatment.

The applicants propose to help bioethicists to gain historical perspective on their field by making basic information about, and scholarly interpretations of, medical ethics past available to their colleagues in a one-volume history of medical ethics to be published by Cambridge University Press. A History of Modern Medical Ethics, the first contemporary, English-language history of medical ethics, will be authoritative, affordable, and accessible to bioethicists, to social historians and to historians of medicine, to general audiences in the humanities, to health care professionals and health professions educators, and to interested members of the public. The volume will represent a global history of the discourses of medical ethics (of religion and philosophy, of practitioners, of patients, and of bioethics), interpretive essays (e.g. on economics and medical ethics), and an extensive reference section (of biographies, summaries of key concepts and texts, bibliographies, and timelines). It should become the essential departure point for future teaching and scholarship and help bring bioethics to maturity as a field of the humanities.

Associated Products

The Cambridge World History of Medical Ethics (Book)
Title: The Cambridge World History of Medical Ethics
Editor: Laurence B. McCullough
Editor: Robert B. Baker
Abstract: 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 volumes reconceptualize 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.
Year: 2009
Primary URL: http://www.worldcat.org/title/cambridge-world-history-of-medical-ethics/oclc/495415251
Primary URL Description: WorldCat listing
Secondary URL: http://www.cambridge.org/us/knowledge/isbn/item1175120/?site_locale=en_US
Secondary URL Description: Publisher's listing
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Type: Edited Volume
ISBN: 9780521888790

Prizes

Choice Magazine Outstanding Reference/Academic Book Award 2009
Date: 12/1/2009
Organization: CHOICE Magazine
Abstract: CHOICE is a publishing unit of the Association of College and Research Libraries, a division of the American Library Association. Every year in the January issue, in print and online, Choice publishes a list of Outstanding Academic Titles that were reviewed during the previous calendar year. This prestigious list reflects the best in scholarly titles reviewed by Choice and brings with it the extraordinary recognition of the academic library community.

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