November 5, 1999: Volume 47, Number 9

NEH to Support Med. Ethics Study

The National Endowment for the Humanities has awarded a three-year grant of $181,500 to Robert Baker, professor of philosophy, and a colleague, Laurence B. McCullough of Baylor College of Medicine, in support of their project, "A History of Medical Ethics."

The award, one of 40 collaborations funded by NEH's Humanities Research Division, supports an international conference involving the 57 scholars.

"A History of Medical Ethics," a comprehensive 925-page, one-volume history, is to be published by Cambridge University Press in 2002. Supplementing the 21 chapters will be short accounts of major biomedical ethics texts, short biographies of major figures, extensive bibliographies and indices of both names and subjects.

The project involves experts from Africa, Asia, the Middle East, Europe, and North and South America. Among the countries represented are Argentina, Canada, China, France, Germany, Hungary, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kenya, the Netherlands, South Africa, United Kingdom and the U.S.

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