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Before Bioethics
A History of American Medical Ethics from the Colonial Period to the Bioethics Revolution
AvRobert Baker
Inbunden, Engelska, 2013
1 788 kr
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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.
Before Bioethics
A History of American Medical Ethics from the Colonial Period to the Bioethics Revolution
AvRobert Baker
E-bok
PDF, Engelska, 2013
935 kr
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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. This comprehensive history tracks the evolution of American medical ethics over four centuries, from colonial midwives and physicians'' oaths to medical society codes, through the bioethics revolution. 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.To access the companion website for Before Bioethics: A History of American Medical Ethics from the Colonial Period to the Bioethics Revolution, please visit: http://global.oup.com/us/companion.websites/9780199774111/
Structure of Moral Revolutions
AvRobert Baker
E-bok
Engelska, 2019
529 kr
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A theoretical account of moral revolutions, illustrated by historical cases that include the criminalization and decriminalization of abortion and the patient rebellion against medical paternalism.
We live in an age of moral revolutions in which the once morally outrageous has become morally acceptable, and the formerly acceptable is now regarded as reprehensible. Attitudes toward same-sex love, for example, and the proper role of women, have undergone paradigm shifts over the last several decades. In this book, Robert Baker argues that these inversions are the product of moral revolutions that follow a pattern similar to that of the scientific revolutions analyzed by Thomas Kuhn in his influential book, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions.
After laying out the theoretical terrain, Baker develops his argument with examples of moral reversals from the recent and distant past. He describes the revolution, led by the utilitarian philosopher Jeremy Bentham, that transformed the postmortem dissection of human bodies from punitive desecration to civic virtue; the criminalization of abortion in the nineteenth century and its decriminalization in the twentieth century; and the invention of a new bioethics paradigm in the 1970s and 1980s, supporting a patient-led rebellion against medical paternalism. Finally, Baker reflects on moral relativism, arguing that the acceptance of “absolute” moral truths denies us the diversity of moral perspectives that permit us to alter our morality in response to changing environments.
Making Modern Medical Ethics
AvRobert Baker
E-bok
Engelska, 2024
691 kr
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Extravagant
Crossings of Modern Poetry and Modern Philosophy
AvRobert Baker
Inbunden, Engelska, 2005
1 232 kr
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In The Extravagant Robert Baker explores the interplay between poetry and philosophy in the modern period, engaging a broad range of writers: Kant, Wordsworth, and Lyotard in a chapter on the sublime; Rimbaud, Nietzsche, and Bataille in a chapter on visionary quest; and Kierkegaard, Dickinson, Mallarmé, and Derrida in a chapter on apocalyptic negativity. His guiding concern is to illuminate adventures of "extravagant" or "wandering" language that, from the romantic period on, both poets and philosophers have undertaken in opposition to the dominant social and discursive frames of a pervasively instrumentalized world. The larger interpretative narrative shaping the book is that a dialectic of instrumental reason and creative negativity has been at work throughout modern culture. Baker argues that adventures of exploratory wandering emerge in the romantic period as displaced articulations of older religious discourses. Given the dominant trends of the modern world, however, these adventures repeatedly lead to severe collisions and crises, in response to which they are later revised or further displaced. Over time, as instrumental structures come to disfigure every realm of modern life, poetries and philosophies at odds with these structures are forced to criticize and surpass earlier voices in their traditions that seem to have lost a transformative power. Thus, Baker argues, these adventures gradually unfold into various discourses of the negative prominent in contemporary culture: discourses of decentering, dispersing, undoing, and erring. It is this dialectic that Baker traces and interprets in this ambitious study.
Extravagant
Crossings of Modern Poetry and Modern Philosophy
AvRobert Baker
Häftad, Engelska, 2005
366 kr
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In The Extravagant Robert Baker explores the interplay between poetry and philosophy in the modern period, engaging a broad range of writers: Kant, Wordsworth, and Lyotard in a chapter on the sublime; Rimbaud, Nietzsche, and Bataille in a chapter on visionary quest; and Kierkegaard, Dickinson, Mallarmé, and Derrida in a chapter on apocalyptic negativity. His guiding concern is to illuminate adventures of "extravagant" or "wandering" language that, from the romantic period on, both poets and philosophers have undertaken in opposition to the dominant social and discursive frames of a pervasively instrumentalized world. The larger interpretative narrative shaping the book is that a dialectic of instrumental reason and creative negativity has been at work throughout modern culture. Baker argues that adventures of exploratory wandering emerge in the romantic period as displaced articulations of older religious discourses. Given the dominant trends of the modern world, however, these adventures repeatedly lead to severe collisions and crises, in response to which they are later revised or further displaced. Over time, as instrumental structures come to disfigure every realm of modern life, poetries and philosophies at odds with these structures are forced to criticize and surpass earlier voices in their traditions that seem to have lost a transformative power. Thus, Baker argues, these adventures gradually unfold into various discourses of the negative prominent in contemporary culture: discourses of decentering, dispersing, undoing, and erring. It is this dialectic that Baker traces and interprets in this ambitious study.
In Dark Again in Wonder
The Poetry of René Char and George Oppen
AvRobert Baker
Häftad, Engelska, 2012
431 kr
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At the center of In Dark Again in Wonder are readings of René Char (1907-88) and George Oppen (1908-84). Both of these poets achieved recognition at a young age, Char among the French surrealists in the 1930s, Oppen among the American objectivists in the same decade. Both were independent individuals who, having found their way to communities of inventive writers, stepped back and shaped their own idiosyncratic paths. Both responded decisively to the social upheavals of the 1930s and '40s. Oppen committed himself to radical politics in the '30s, a decision that, as it turned out, led to his not writing poetry for nearly twenty-five years. Char fought in the Resistance in the '40s. Both, in their mature work, developed a kind of poetry that is at once a love poetry, a meditative poetry, and a poetry of encounter. The concluding chapter of the book places the questions raised by Char's and Oppen's work in a larger context, tracing the cultural history that shapes our modern experience of inhabiting a tension between an historical and a metaphysical horizon of experience, or, as this appears in a different but related light, a tension between a sociological and an existential understanding of our lives. Char and Oppen are both poets concerned with the old philosophical questions that are still with us—the nature of spiritual freedom, the gathering of the self in relation to death, the meditation on the whole, the turn to Nature as the open space of the whole under the conditions of modernity, the clarification of the ground of vision in eros and love, and the search for the good life—while at the same time they fully engage the social predicaments and promises of their world.
God's Word for Today
Job/Compassion in Calamity
AvDirk A Van Der Linde,Robert Baker
Häftad, Engelska, 2004
183 kr
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Del 11 - Advances in Bioethics
Empirical Methods for Bioethics
A Primer
AvLiva Jacoby,Laura A. Siminoffm. fl.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2007
1 225 kr
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In recent years concerns over the use of results of scientific advances, expectations about how medical decisions are made, and demographic changes have raised ethical questions about how resources are allocated, and how the principles of beneficence, and respect for patient autonomy are applied. The effect that bioethics can have on policy decisions and health care delivery demand an enhanced approach to our understanding of such complex issues. This volume opens a window to how empirical social research can be used to illuminate and answer such quandaries and offers a practical resource for those wishing to engage in this type of research. Through a thorough look at both quantitative and qualitative methods utilized in key research investigations in bioethics, the book examines the impact of such investigations on clinical and policy decision-making, scholarship and on the advancement of theory. The varied sociological and anthropological research examples that are presented allow readers to better understand the richness and breadth of such work as well as relevant practical and theoretical approaches. Last, but not least, the book aims to stimulate further discussion of avenues toward a more solid integration of bioethics and empirical social research and, in that process, further our understanding of the complex bioethical environment surrounding us. This book offers insights into clinical and policy implications of empirical research, enhances understanding of methodologies as applied to bioethics. It is comprehensive - gives a range of examples of empirical bioethics studies, interdisciplinary - geared to a wide audience and a reference source - includes a large number of references.
Del 9 - Advances in Bioethics
Ethics and Epidemics
AvJohn A. Balint,Sean Philpottm. fl.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2006
1 642 kr
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"The Advances in Bioethics" series is devoted to publishing collections of original papers and multi-authored volumes that advance the field of bioethics either by exploring new areas, or by taking new approaches to traditional areas. Although the series is published in English, its scope is international, and manuscripts are welcome from authors throughout the world. Divided into three sections this volume covers: Human Rights, Public Safety, and Public Policy; Practitioner Responsibilities During Times of Epidemics; Global Dimensions of Epidemics - each chapter in the book goes in depth to discuss the issues surrounding the topic in question and combines a theoretical thought process with practical application.
Rationing America's Medical Care
The Oregon Plan and Beyond
AvMartin A. Strosberg,Joshua M. Wienerm. fl.
E-bok
Engelska, 2010
311 kr
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As Americans struggle with the dual problems of exploding health care costs and ensuring access to health care for the uninsured, health care rationing has moved to the center of the public policy debate. A prime example of this is the intense public discussion surrounding the proposal by the state of Oregon to provide universal health care at a price: the explicit rationing of which diagnoses and treatments will be covered. Focusing largely on the Oregon proposal, this volume examines a wide range of ethical, methodological, legal, and political issues that must be addressed by any serious program of health care reform.
Rationing America's Medical Care
The Oregon Plan and Beyond
AvMartin A. Strosberg,Joshua M. Wienerm. fl.
Häftad, Engelska, 1992
293 kr
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As Americans struggle with the dual problems of exploding health care costs and ensuring access to health care for the uninsured, health care rationing has moved to the center of the public policy debate. A prime example of this is the intense public discussion surrounding the proposal by the state of Oregon to provide universal health care at a price: the explicit rationing of which diagnoses and treatments will be covered. Focusing largely on the Oregon proposal, this volume examines a wide range of ethical, methodological, legal, and political issues that must be addressed by any serious program of health care reform.
Noel
Or, It Was to Be, by R. Baker and S. Yorke
AvRobert Baker,Skelton Yorke
Inbunden, Engelska, 2023
445 kr
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Noel
Or, It Was to Be, by R. Baker and S. Yorke
AvRobert Baker,Skelton Yorke
Häftad, Engelska, 2023
318 kr
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Del 1 - Where Empires Die
Last Day of All Days
AvRobert Baker
Häftad, Engelska, 2025
198 kr
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Del 1 - Where Empires Die
Last Day of All Days
AvRobert Baker
Inbunden, Engelska, 2025
319 kr
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Critical Essays in Sport Management
Exploring and Achieving a Paradigm Shift
AvAndy Gillentine,Robert Bakerm. fl.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2017
2 355 kr
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This collection of essays, written by a number of respected sport management scholars, addresses many of the challenges and issues facing today's sport management academic programs. It is intended to begin a professional and scholarly discussion to identify the best, or at least the most logical, paths to follow for sport management programs and the industry with which they are so closely aligned. Contributors, invited to participate based on their recognized areas of expertise, address specific topics using their own unique voices and writing styles. In the ebook version, essays link to video introductions by the authors and to online discussion forums where readers can respond to the issues presented in the essays. From the Preface: The field of sport management stands at an academic crossroads; the essays in this book address the following and other emerging questions:Should our successful field of study continue to model other disciplines and perpetuate their successes, as well as their shortcomings, or should we determine our own specific model for academic success? How are we doing in preparing future sport managers to perform in the industry and on the global stage? Where do we belong in the scheme of academe? The book's goal is to generate discussion among sport management professors, industry professionals who serve as adjunct faculty and participate on sport management program advisory boards, doctoral students who intend to teach in sport management programs, and others who explore and critique higher education in general.
Reflections on the English Language, in the Nature of Vaugelas's Reflections on the French; ... to Which Is Prefixed a Discourse Addressed to His Majesty.
AvRobert Baker
Häftad, Engelska, 2010
257 kr
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Reflections on the English Language, in the Nature of Vaugelas's Reflections on the French; ... to Which Is Prefixed a Discourse Addressed to His Majesty.
AvRobert Baker
Häftad, Engelska, 2010
257 kr
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The Merry Jester. Containing Great Variety of Comical Jests, Keen Waggeries, Smart Repartees, ... Polite Witticisms and Strokes of Humour. by Robert B
AvRobert Baker
Häftad, Engelska, 2010
228 kr
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Noel Or, It Was to Be.
AvRobert Baker,Skelton Yorke
Häftad, Tyska, 2011
285 kr
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Noel Or, It Was to Be.
AvRobert Baker,Skelton Yorke
Häftad, Engelska, 2011
285 kr
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Critical Essays in Sport Management
Exploring and Achieving a Paradigm Shift
AvJacquelyn Cuneen,Robert Bakerm. fl.
E-bok
Engelska, 2017
1 027 kr
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This collection of essays, written by a number of respected sport management scholars, addresses many of the challenges and issues facing today''s sport management academic programs. It is intended to begin a professional and scholarly discussion to identify the best, or at least the most logical, paths to follow for sport management programs and the industry with which they are so closely aligned. Contributors, invited to participate based on their recognized areas of expertise, address specific topics using their own unique voices and writing styles. In the ebook version, essays link to video introductions by the authors and to online discussion forums where readers can respond to the issues presented in the essays. From the Preface: The field of sport management stands at an academic crossroads; the essays in this book address the following and other emerging questions:
Should our successful field of study continue to model other disciplines and perpetuate their successes, as well as their shortcomings, or should we determine our own specific model for academic success?
How are we doing in preparing future sport managers to perform in the industry and on the global stage?
Where do we belong in the scheme of academe?
The book''s goal is to generate discussion among sport management professors, industry professionals who serve as adjunct faculty and participate on sport management program advisory boards, doctoral students who intend to teach in sport management programs, and others who explore and critique higher education in general.
Critical Essays in Sport Management
Exploring and Achieving a Paradigm Shift
AvJacquelyn Cuneen,Robert Bakerm. fl.
E-bok
PDF, Engelska, 2017
1 027 kr
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This collection of essays, written by a number of respected sport management scholars, addresses many of the challenges and issues facing today''s sport management academic programs. It is intended to begin a professional and scholarly discussion to identify the best, or at least the most logical, paths to follow for sport management programs and the industry with which they are so closely aligned. Contributors, invited to participate based on their recognized areas of expertise, address specific topics using their own unique voices and writing styles. In the ebook version, essays link to video introductions by the authors and to online discussion forums where readers can respond to the issues presented in the essays. From the Preface: The field of sport management stands at an academic crossroads; the essays in this book address the following and other emerging questions:
Should our successful field of study continue to model other disciplines and perpetuate their successes, as well as their shortcomings, or should we determine our own specific model for academic success?
How are we doing in preparing future sport managers to perform in the industry and on the global stage?
Where do we belong in the scheme of academe?
The book''s goal is to generate discussion among sport management professors, industry professionals who serve as adjunct faculty and participate on sport management program advisory boards, doctoral students who intend to teach in sport management programs, and others who explore and critique higher education in general.
Reflections on the English Language, in the Nature of Vaugelas's Reflections on the French; ... To Which is Prefixed a Discourse Addressed to His Majesty
AvRobert Baker
Inbunden, Engelska, 2018
385 kr
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Merry Jester. Containing Great Variety of Comical Jests, Keen Waggeries, Smart Repartees, ... Polite Witticisms and Strokes of Humour. By Robert Baker
AvRobert Baker
Inbunden, Engelska, 2018
356 kr
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Reflections on the English Language, in the Nature of Vaugelas's Reflections on the French; ... To Which is Prefixed a Discourse Addressed to His Majesty
AvRobert Baker
Inbunden, Engelska, 2018
384 kr
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Baker, R: Remarks On The English Language, In The Manner Of
AvRobert Baker
Häftad, Engelska, 2008
322 kr
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Getting To Know Granddad
A World War I Doughboy Diary
AvRobert Baker
Häftad, Engelska, 2009
162 kr
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Objectives of the New International Economic Order
Pergamon Policy Studies
AvElliott Eisenberg,Robert Bakerm. fl.
E-bok
PDF, Engelska, 2017
805 kr
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The Objectives of the New International Economic Order focuses on the role of the New International Economic Order (NIEO) in the resolution of issues in world economy, international trade, economic policies, trade relations, and business practices. The manuscript first offers information on the objectives of the NIEO in historical and global perspectives, as well as the political relevance of the NIEO, historical factors in the emergence of the NIEO, and contrary perceptions and vicious circles. The book also takes a look at the objectives of the NIEO regarding issues in world economy. Concerns include renegotiating the debts of developing countries, attaining United Nations development assistance targets, and using funds from disarmament for development. The publication discusses international trade and world economy issues. Topics include adjusting the economic policies of developed countries to facilitate the expansion and diversification of the exports of developing countries; improving and intensifying trade relations between countries having different social and economic systems; and increasing the transfer of resources through the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. The text also elaborates on industrialization issues, technology transfer, and business practices and social issues. The book is a vital source of information for readers interested in the role of NIEO in the resolution of issues in world economy, international trade, economic policies, trade relations, and business practices.

Robert Baker – författare

Before Bioethics

Before Bioethics

Structure of Moral Revolutions

Making Modern Medical Ethics

Extravagant

Extravagant

In Dark Again in Wonder

God's Word for Today

Empirical Methods for Bioethics

Ethics and Epidemics

Rationing America's Medical Care

Rationing America's Medical Care

Noel

Noel

Last Day of All Days

Last Day of All Days

Critical Essays in Sport Management

Reflections on the English Language, in the Nature of Vaugelas's Reflections on the French; ... to Which Is Prefixed a Discourse Addressed to His Majesty.

Reflections on the English Language, in the Nature of Vaugelas's Reflections on the French; ... to Which Is Prefixed a Discourse Addressed to His Majesty.

The Merry Jester. Containing Great Variety of Comical Jests, Keen Waggeries, Smart Repartees, ... Polite Witticisms and Strokes of Humour. by Robert B

Noel Or, It Was to Be.

Noel Or, It Was to Be.

Critical Essays in Sport Management

Critical Essays in Sport Management

Reflections on the English Language, in the Nature of Vaugelas's Reflections on the French; ... To Which is Prefixed a Discourse Addressed to His Majesty

Merry Jester. Containing Great Variety of Comical Jests, Keen Waggeries, Smart Repartees, ... Polite Witticisms and Strokes of Humour. By Robert Baker

Reflections on the English Language, in the Nature of Vaugelas's Reflections on the French; ... To Which is Prefixed a Discourse Addressed to His Majesty

Baker, R: Remarks On The English Language, In The Manner Of

Getting To Know Granddad

Objectives of the New International Economic Order