Posted on Oct 14, 2005

Robert Baker, professor of philosophy and chair of the Alden March Bioethics Institute, is senior scholar at the Institute for Ethics of the American Medical Association (AMA) in Chicago this month. He is serving as a consultant on several projects, offering a seminar on the AMA leadership group and working with archivists on a documentary history of American medical ethics for Georgetown University Press. In an earlier collaboration, Baker was lead editor in producing The American Medical Ethics Revolution (Johns Hopkins University Press 1999), which won a place on the Choice list of outstanding scholarly books for 2000.