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Record Nr.

UNINA9910901888103321

Autore

Baker Robert <1937->

Titolo

Making modern medical ethics : how African Americans, anti-Nazis, bureaucrats, feminists, veterans, and whistleblowing moralists created bioethics / / Robert Baker

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Massachusetts : , : The MIT Press, , [2024]

ISBN

0-262-37741-1

0-262-37740-3

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (403 pages)

Collana

Basic bioethics

Disciplina

174.2

Soggetti

Medical ethics - History

Bioethics - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

"A counter history of the birth of bioethics, which focuses on the dissenters and whistleblowers who challenged law and institutions rather than simply the development of new technologies"--