Robert P Baker
Biographic Data
| ID | 5764210 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert P Baker |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert P |
| FAMILY NAME | Baker |
| SIGNATURE | BAKER R P |
| AFFILIATIONS | 1 The University of Montana USA Missoula |
| ORCID | 0009-0005-1230-6570 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1966 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Show and slow codes: A historical analysis of clinicians' adaptations to ethical overreach
After briefly reviewing the historical development and ethical regulation of resuscitative technologies, this study probes why clinicians engage in the morally problematic practice of show and slow coding and why hospitals tolerate it? Studies conducted in 1995 and 2020 indicate that conscientious clinicians engage in these practices to protect their patients from abusive or futile resuscitation. And hospitals' clinical cultures tolerate these pr…
Reply to Rawls's, race, and 20th century bioethics
Anchor bias, autonomy, and 20th‐century bioethicists' blindness to racism
The central thesis of this article is that by anchoring bioethics' core conceptual armamentarium in a four‐principled theory emphasizing autonomy and treating justice as a principle of allocation, theorists inadvertently biased 20th‐century bioethical scholarship against addressing such subjects as ableism, anti‐Black racism, classism, and other forms of discrimination, placing them outside of the scope of bioethics research and scholarship. It i…
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…
Pourquoi Paris se soulève
What Do the Inconsolable See: From Virgil’s Orpheus to Marilynne Robinson’s Ruth
Wisdom is often is often said to begin with a meditation on death or, at the deepest level, with our attempt to cope with the death of another: with our passage through loss, grief, mourning, the risk of despair. Stories of loss and renewal help us to work again, love again, and walk with a lighter step again. Stories of inconsolable grief remind us that there is something absolute in loss: that we are never the same after certain losses, no matt…
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…
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…
Crossings of Levinas, Derrida, and Adorno: Horizons of Nonviolence
Health Economics Worldwide
The effects of interspecies infant interaction upon social behavior ofMacaca irus andErythrocebus patas
Labor history, social science, and the concept of the working class
Mother-infant separation in the patas monkey
The Unclaimed Personal Property Problem: A Legislative Proposal
Socialism in the Nord, 1880–1914. A Regional View of the French Socialist Movement
This paper was written before the appearance of Leslie Derfler's “Reformism and Jules Guesde: 1891–1904” ( International Review of Social History , XII (1967), pp. 66–80). It is not specifically aimed at answering or refuting Derfler's article; however, it adds to his discussion of French reformism and Jules Guesde. Derfler and I agree that an analysis of Socialist theory is of secondary importance for the historian trying to unravel the complexi…
Problems and Policies of Oil Shale Development
Unemployment Compensation for Job Rotation Layoffs
Mother-infant separation in the patas monkey
Socialism in the Nord, 1880–1914. A Regional View of the French Socialist Movement
This paper was written before the appearance of Leslie Derfler's “Reformism and Jules Guesde: 1891–1904” ( International Review of Social History , XII (1967), pp. 66–80). It is not specifically aimed at answering or refuting Derfler's article; however, it adds to his discussion of French reformism and Jules Guesde. Derfler and I agree that an analysis of Socialist theory is of secondary importance for the historian trying to unravel the complexi…
Problems and Policies of Oil Shale Development
Unemployment Compensation for Job Rotation Layoffs
The Unclaimed Personal Property Problem: A Legislative Proposal
Socialism in the Nord, 1880–1914. A Regional View of the French Socialist Movement
This paper was written before the appearance of Leslie Derfler's “Reformism and Jules Guesde: 1891–1904” ( International Review of Social History , XII (1967), pp. 66–80). It is not specifically aimed at answering or refuting Derfler's article; however, it adds to his discussion of French reformism and Jules Guesde. Derfler and I agree that an analysis of Socialist theory is of secondary importance for the historian trying to unravel the complexi…
Mother-infant separation in the patas monkey
The effects of interspecies infant interaction upon social behavior ofMacaca irus andErythrocebus patas
Labor history, social science, and the concept of the working class
Crossings of Levinas, Derrida, and Adorno: Horizons of Nonviolence
Health Economics Worldwide
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…
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…
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 …
What Do the Inconsolable See: From Virgil’s Orpheus to Marilynne Robinson’s Ruth
Wisdom is often is often said to begin with a meditation on death or, at the deepest level, with our attempt to cope with the death of another: with our passage through loss, grief, mourning, the risk of despair. Stories of loss and renewal help us to work again, love again, and walk with a lighter step again. Stories of inconsolable grief remind us that there is something absolute in loss: that we are never the same after certain losses, no matt…
Pourquoi Paris se soulève
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…
Reply to Rawls's, race, and 20th century bioethics
Anchor bias, autonomy, and 20th‐century bioethicists' blindness to racism
The central thesis of this article is that by anchoring bioethics' core conceptual armamentarium in a four‐principled theory emphasizing autonomy and treating justice as a principle of allocation, theorists inadvertently biased 20th‐century bioethical scholarship against addressing such subjects as ableism, anti‐Black racism, classism, and other forms of discrimination, placing them outside of the scope of bioethics research and scholarship. It i…
Show and slow codes: A historical analysis of clinicians' adaptations to ethical overreach
After briefly reviewing the historical development and ethical regulation of resuscitative technologies, this study probes why clinicians engage in the morally problematic practice of show and slow coding and why hospitals tolerate it? Studies conducted in 1995 and 2020 indicate that conscientious clinicians engage in these practices to protect their patients from abusive or futile resuscitation. And hospitals' clinical cultures tolerate these pr…
Philosophy (11 works) · Political science (10 works) · Law (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Bioethics (6 works) · Ethics in medical practice (6 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Economics (4 works) · Environmental ethics (4 works)