Tom Beauchamp

Tom Beauchamp is Professor of Philosophy at Georgetown University and Senior Research Scholar at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics, where his research specialties include ethics of human-subjects research and the place of universal principles and rights in biomedical ethics. One of the founding fathers of bioethics, he was one of the lead authors of the_ Belmont Report_, the 1978 paper that established the first ethical guidelines for conducting research on humans, and is co-author with Jim Childress of Principles of Biomedical Ethics, currently in its 6th edition — the world’s most widely used bioethics textbook.