Tom Beauchamp is a professor of philosophy and a senior research scholar at Georgetown University’s Kennedy Institute of Ethics in Washington, D.C. In 1976, he joined the staff of the National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects of Biomedical and Behavioral Research, where he wrote the bulk of The Belmont Report (1978), the first and still-definitive document on patients’ rights and human experimentation. Beauchamp is a co-author of Principles of Biomedical Ethics (Oxford University Press, 2001).
| Website | http://explore.georgetown.edu/people/beauchat/?PageTemplateID=79 |
| Email address | beauchat@georgetown.edu |
| Phone number | 202-687-6726 |
| Phone number 2 | 202-687-8099 |
| Categories | Bioethics, education, Government & politics, Law & courts, Medical ethics, Science & health, Society & culture |
| Locations | United States of America, Washington, D.C. |
| Resource Types | Sources |
| Languages | English |