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Biography

Robert Baker is William D. Williams Professor of Philosophy at Union College (Emeritus) and is Professor of Bioethics and Founding Director (Emeritus) of the �Ӱ���̳-Icahn-Mount Sinai Bioethics program. He earned his BA with Honors in History from City College of New York, a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Minnesota and was a post-doctoral fellow at Albany Medical College. He serves on the editorial board of Bioethics, was a four-time National Endowment for the Humanities awardee, and is a Hastings Center Fellow. He has written, edited, or co-edited over a dozen books including, The American Medical Ethics Revolution (Johns Hopkins University Press) and The Cambridge World History of Medical Ethics (Cambridge University Press): each was cited in the year of its publication by Choice, journal of the American Library Association, as “outstanding book of the year in health sciences.”In 2013, Oxford University Press published Before Bioethics: A History of American Medical Ethics. Baker served as consultant to the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities committee that developed an ethics code for healthcare ethics consultants and co-authored a report prompting the board of the American Medical Association to apologize publicly for its past treatment of African American physicians. Oxford University Press published his most recent book,. His latest book, The Structure of Moral Revolutions: Studies of the Changing Morality of Abortion, Death and the Bioethics Revolution was published by MIT Press in 2019.

Research Interests

History of Medical Ethics

Awards

Hastings Center Fellow

Publications

• Baker, Robert. 1999. The American Medical Ethics Revolution: How the AMA’s Code of Ethics Has Transformed Physicians’ Relationships to Patients, Professionals, and Society. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. .
• 2013. Before Bioethics: A History of American Medical Ethics from the Colonial Period to the Bioethics Revolution. Oxford University Press.
• 2018. “Philosophers’ Invasion of Clinical Ethics: Historical and Personal Reflections.” The American Journal of Bioethics 18 (6): 51–54.
• 2019a. The Structure of Moral Revolutions: Studies of Changes in the Morality of Abortion, Death, and the Bioethics Revolution. MIT Press.
• 2019b. “Kübler-Ross and Bioethics: A Cautionary Tale.” The American Journal of Bioethics 19 (12): 48–49. .
• 2021. “How Should Students Learn �Ӱ���̳ Contemporary Implications of Health Professionals’ Roles in the Holocaust?” AMA Journal of Ethics 23 (1): 31–37. .
• Baker, Robert B., and Laurence B. McCullough, eds. 2008. The Cambridge World History of Medical Ethics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. .
• Schmidt, Ulf, Andreas Frewer, and Dominique Sprumont. 2020. Ethical Research: The Declaration of Helsinki, and the Past, Present, and Future of Human Experimentation. Oxford University Press.