Contemporary issues in bioethics - Hardcover

Tom L. Beauchamp

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9780534101824: Contemporary issues in bioethics

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0534101828 ISBN 13: 9780534101824

Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing, CA, 1989

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This book should be of interest to for people in the medical, welfare and legal fields who need to know about codes of practice and moral issues.

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Tom Beauchamp is Professor of Philosophy and Senior Research Scholar at Georgetown University's Kennedy Institute of Ethics. He received graduate degrees from Yale University (Divinity) and Johns Hopkins University, where he received his Ph.D. in in philosophy 1970. He then joined the faculty of the Philosophy Department at Georgetown University, and in the mid-70s accepted a joint appointment at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics. 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). Dr. Beauchamp's research interests are in Hume and the history of modern philosophy and practical ethics, especially biomedical ethics and business ethics.

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