Robert Baker
Biographic Data
| ID | 3773188 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert Baker |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert |
| FAMILY NAME | Baker |
| SIGNATURE | BAKER R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Union College |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3909-4425 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Intersection of University Athletics and Mental Health: A Canadian Perspective
Existing research indicates that Canadian student-athletes experience mental health disorders at higher rates than the general student population. However, while the mental health of American student-athletes has been extensively researched, there is limited literature available about the mental health of Canadian student-athletes. Very little is also known about the stressors associated with participating in Canadian university athletics and how…
Principles and Duties: A Critique of Common Morality Theory
Tom Beauchamp and James Childress‘s revolutionary textbook, Principles of Biomedical Ethics, shaped the field of bioethics in America and around the world. Midway through the Principle’s eight editions, however, the authors jettisoned their attempt to justify the four principles of bioethics —autonomy, beneficence, nonmaleficence, justice—in terms of ethical theory, replacing it with the idea that these principles are part of a common morality sh…
A Developing Timeline for Bioethics
This brief essay describes the purpose, the content, and the development, by a group of Hastings Center fellows and a scholar at the Center, of the Hastings Center Bioethics Timeline. The timeline covers the wide range of contemporary events pertaining to the intersection of bioethics with the medical and biological sciences, health care, and health policy, as well as the medical arts and medical humanities. A collaborative effort that documents …
How Should Students Learn About Contemporary Implications of Health Professionals' Roles in the Holocaust
Foundational documents of modern biomedical ethics, such as the Nuremberg Code, the World Medical Association's declarations of Geneva and Helsinki, and the Belmont Report, trace their origins to health care professionals' complicity in the Holocaust. Rituals of contemporary medical education, such as white coat ceremonies and oath swearing at graduations, are practices that express professional resolve to never again be complicit in genocide or …
Living Histories of Structural Racism and Organized Medicine
This article reassesses and recontextualizes findings of an independent writing group commissioned in 2005 by what was then known as the Institute for Ethics of the American Medical Association (AMA). The authors were members of this group, which uncovered a paradigm case of structural racism that has perpetuated health inequity since the issue of admitting African Americans was first raised at the AMA's national meetings immediately after the Ci…
Critical Essays in Sport Management: Exploring and Achieving a Paradigm Shift
Bioethics in Historical Perspective by Sarah Ferber
Reviewed by: Bioethics in Historical Perspective by Sarah Ferber Robert Baker Sarah Ferber. Bioethics in Historical Perspective. Basingstoke, UK Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. xiv + 233 pp. $32.95 ( 978-1-4039-8724-2). Errata During the 1960s and 1970s ethical issues raised by the development of the ventilator, in vitro fertilization, and other morally disruptive medical innovations, and media revelations about researchers' exploitation of minorities …
The timing and use of offshore islands in the Great Barrier Reef Marine Province, Queensland
Duncan Wilson, The Making of British bioethics
Overshadowed by its American cousin, British bioethics has yet to receive the scholarly attention that it deserves. Taking a major step towards remedying this deficit, Duncan Wilson, a research associate at the University of Manchester's Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine, has written the first monograph on the history of British bioethics. As Wilson correctly observes, bioethics originated in America as an anti-authoritar…
The American Medical Association and Race
Race" has been a four-letter word in the United States for almost four centuries. It earned that status in 1619 when Dutch traders sold the first African slaves in Jamestown, Virginia, and continued to have that status after the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment in 1865, which officially ended slavery throughout the United States. By the mid-nineteenth century, the "peculiar institution" as slavery was called-the term "peculiar," according to t…
Customary International Law in the 21st Century: Old Challenges and New Debates
This article will survey the new non-traditional scholarship which has emerged in international law to challenge the two long-established sources of customary norms, state practice and opinio juris. With the recent growth, in the international system, of self-contained international criminal tribunals, new challenges facing international law have emerged. Institutionally structured as self-contained legal regimes, international legal tribunals su…
Segregation, Civil Rights, and Health Disparities: The Legacy of African American Physicians and Organized Medicine, 1910-1968
Ethics and epidemics
A Concise History of Euthanasia: Life, Death, God, and Medicine (review)
Reviewed by: A Concise History of Euthanasia: Life, Death, God, and Medicine Robert B. Baker Ian Dowbiggin . A Concise History of Euthanasia: Life, Death, God, and Medicine. Critical Issues in History. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2005. vii + 163 pp. $22.95 (0-7425-3110-4). This compact volume offers a comprehensive distillation of the history of euthanasia, contextualized in terms of the struggle between organized religion and secular advo…
Disrupted Dialogue: Medical Ethics and the Collapse of Physician-Humanist Communication (1770-1980) (review)
Reviewed by: Disrupted Dialogue: Medical Ethics and the Collapse of Physician-Humanist Communication (1770-1980) Robert B. Baker Robert M. Veatch . Disrupted Dialogue: Medical Ethics and the Collapse of Physician-Humanist Communication (1770-1980). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. xxii + 317 pp. Tables. $49.95 (0-19-516976-X). As one of the founders of bioethics, Robert Veatch has participated in an “intense conversation . . . between human…
Getting Agreement: How Bioethics Got Started
The Efficacy of Professional Ethics The AMA Code of Ethis in Historical and Current Perspective
Robert Baker, Linda Emanuel, The Efficacy of Professional Ethics The AMA Code of Ethis in Historical and Current Perspective, The Hastings Center Report, Vol. 30, No. 4 (Jul. - Aug., 2000), pp. S13-S17
The Efficacy of Professional Ethics: The AMA Code of Ethics in Historical and Current Perspective
Schools that Make a Difference: A sociological perspective on effective schooling
A recent review essay of three books on effective schooling stated that the literature on school effectiveness largely adopts a functionalist view of society and schooling and the field of inquiry is dominated by a positivist paradigm. The review argued for a sociological analysis of effective schooling. This paper examines from a sociological perspective the nature of effective schooling. The paper draws on case studies of four high schools to a…
Crossings of Levinas, Derrida, and Adorno: Horizons of Nonviolence
Health Economics Worldwide
Rationing America's Medical Care: The Oregon Plan and beyond
Long-term effects of parental divorce on young adult male crime
Catullus and Sirmio
Avunculus Liber (Catullus 84,5)
Customary International Law in the 21st Century: Old Challenges and New Debates
This article will survey the new non-traditional scholarship which has emerged in international law to challenge the two long-established sources of customary norms, state practice and opinio juris. With the recent growth, in the international system, of self-contained international criminal tribunals, new challenges facing international law have emerged. Institutionally structured as self-contained legal regimes, international legal tribunals su…
Schools that Make a Difference: A sociological perspective on effective schooling
A recent review essay of three books on effective schooling stated that the literature on school effectiveness largely adopts a functionalist view of society and schooling and the field of inquiry is dominated by a positivist paradigm. The review argued for a sociological analysis of effective schooling. This paper examines from a sociological perspective the nature of effective schooling. The paper draws on case studies of four high schools to a…
Long-term effects of parental divorce on young adult male crime
Propertius III 13,30: Whose Baskets
Avunculus Liber (Catullus 84,5)
Philosophy and Sex
Catullus and Sirmio
Long-term effects of parental divorce on young adult male crime
Crossings of Levinas, Derrida, and Adorno: Horizons of Nonviolence
Health Economics Worldwide
Rationing America's Medical Care: The Oregon Plan and beyond
Schools that Make a Difference: A sociological perspective on effective schooling
A recent review essay of three books on effective schooling stated that the literature on school effectiveness largely adopts a functionalist view of society and schooling and the field of inquiry is dominated by a positivist paradigm. The review argued for a sociological analysis of effective schooling. This paper examines from a sociological perspective the nature of effective schooling. The paper draws on case studies of four high schools to a…
The Efficacy of Professional Ethics The AMA Code of Ethis in Historical and Current Perspective
Robert Baker, Linda Emanuel, The Efficacy of Professional Ethics The AMA Code of Ethis in Historical and Current Perspective, The Hastings Center Report, Vol. 30, No. 4 (Jul. - Aug., 2000), pp. S13-S17
The Efficacy of Professional Ethics: The AMA Code of Ethics in Historical and Current Perspective
Getting Agreement: How Bioethics Got Started
Ethics and epidemics
A Concise History of Euthanasia: Life, Death, God, and Medicine (review)
Reviewed by: A Concise History of Euthanasia: Life, Death, God, and Medicine Robert B. Baker Ian Dowbiggin . A Concise History of Euthanasia: Life, Death, God, and Medicine. Critical Issues in History. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2005. vii + 163 pp. $22.95 (0-7425-3110-4). This compact volume offers a comprehensive distillation of the history of euthanasia, contextualized in terms of the struggle between organized religion and secular advo…
Disrupted Dialogue: Medical Ethics and the Collapse of Physician-Humanist Communication (1770-1980) (review)
Reviewed by: Disrupted Dialogue: Medical Ethics and the Collapse of Physician-Humanist Communication (1770-1980) Robert B. Baker Robert M. Veatch . Disrupted Dialogue: Medical Ethics and the Collapse of Physician-Humanist Communication (1770-1980). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. xxii + 317 pp. Tables. $49.95 (0-19-516976-X). As one of the founders of bioethics, Robert Veatch has participated in an “intense conversation . . . between human…
Segregation, Civil Rights, and Health Disparities: The Legacy of African American Physicians and Organized Medicine, 1910-1968
Customary International Law in the 21st Century: Old Challenges and New Debates
This article will survey the new non-traditional scholarship which has emerged in international law to challenge the two long-established sources of customary norms, state practice and opinio juris. With the recent growth, in the international system, of self-contained international criminal tribunals, new challenges facing international law have emerged. Institutionally structured as self-contained legal regimes, international legal tribunals su…
The American Medical Association and Race
Race" has been a four-letter word in the United States for almost four centuries. It earned that status in 1619 when Dutch traders sold the first African slaves in Jamestown, Virginia, and continued to have that status after the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment in 1865, which officially ended slavery throughout the United States. By the mid-nineteenth century, the "peculiar institution" as slavery was called-the term "peculiar," according to t…
The timing and use of offshore islands in the Great Barrier Reef Marine Province, Queensland
Duncan Wilson, The Making of British bioethics
Overshadowed by its American cousin, British bioethics has yet to receive the scholarly attention that it deserves. Taking a major step towards remedying this deficit, Duncan Wilson, a research associate at the University of Manchester's Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine, has written the first monograph on the history of British bioethics. As Wilson correctly observes, bioethics originated in America as an anti-authoritar…
Critical Essays in Sport Management: Exploring and Achieving a Paradigm Shift
Bioethics in Historical Perspective by Sarah Ferber
Reviewed by: Bioethics in Historical Perspective by Sarah Ferber Robert Baker Sarah Ferber. Bioethics in Historical Perspective. Basingstoke, UK Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. xiv + 233 pp. $32.95 ( 978-1-4039-8724-2). Errata During the 1960s and 1970s ethical issues raised by the development of the ventilator, in vitro fertilization, and other morally disruptive medical innovations, and media revelations about researchers' exploitation of minorities …
A Developing Timeline for Bioethics
This brief essay describes the purpose, the content, and the development, by a group of Hastings Center fellows and a scholar at the Center, of the Hastings Center Bioethics Timeline. The timeline covers the wide range of contemporary events pertaining to the intersection of bioethics with the medical and biological sciences, health care, and health policy, as well as the medical arts and medical humanities. A collaborative effort that documents …
How Should Students Learn About Contemporary Implications of Health Professionals' Roles in the Holocaust
Foundational documents of modern biomedical ethics, such as the Nuremberg Code, the World Medical Association's declarations of Geneva and Helsinki, and the Belmont Report, trace their origins to health care professionals' complicity in the Holocaust. Rituals of contemporary medical education, such as white coat ceremonies and oath swearing at graduations, are practices that express professional resolve to never again be complicit in genocide or …
Living Histories of Structural Racism and Organized Medicine
This article reassesses and recontextualizes findings of an independent writing group commissioned in 2005 by what was then known as the Institute for Ethics of the American Medical Association (AMA). The authors were members of this group, which uncovered a paradigm case of structural racism that has perpetuated health inequity since the issue of admitting African Americans was first raised at the AMA's national meetings immediately after the Ci…
Sociology (16 works) · Political science (15 works) · Philosophy (11 works) · Law (10 works) · Ethics in medical practice (8 works) · History (8 works) · Medicine (8 works) · Bioethics (6 works) · Health care (5 works) · Psychology (5 works)