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Edmund D. Pellegrino

Edmund D. Pellegrino

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
57
Citations
12570
World Ranking
1780
National Ranking
849

Research.com Recognitions

  • 1988 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 1972 - Member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM)
  • Member of the Association of American Physicians
  • Member of the Association of American Physicians
  • Member of the Association of American Physicians

Overview

Edmund D. Pellegrino is affiliated with Georgetown University in the United States. Their academic contributions primarily focus on health professions, economics, econometrics and finance, and medicine. They have engaged in research spanning general health professions, pharmacy, economics and econometrics, and family practice.

Their work covers several key topics, including medical malpractice and liability issues, health systems with economic evaluations and quality of life considerations, healthcare cost, quality and practices, clinical reasoning and diagnostic skills, and ethics in medical practice.

Among their recent publications is a 2020 paper titled "The Human Person, the Physician, and the Physician's Ethics" published in The Linacre Quarterly. This paper is part of their contributions to the field of medical ethics and clinical reasoning.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Edmund D. Pellegrino include William P. Cheshire, Linda K. Bevington, C. Ben Mitchell, Nancy Lee Jones, and Kevin T. Fitzgerald.

They have also published books, notably "Pellegrino's Clinical Bioethics", which has appeared through The Catholic University of America and The Catholic University of America Press in 2024 and 2025.

Key publication venues where Pellegrino's work appears include:

  • The Linacre Quarterly

Frequent co-authors in Edmund D. Pellegrino's research:

  • William P. Cheshire
  • Linda K. Bevington
  • C. Ben Mitchell
  • Nancy Lee Jones
  • Kevin T. Fitzgerald

Main topics of their research work include:

  • Medical Malpractice and Liability Issues
  • Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
  • Healthcare cost, quality, practices
  • Clinical Reasoning and Diagnostic Skills
  • Ethics in medical practice

Edmund D. Pellegrino has received several honors, including being named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 1988, a Member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) since 1972, and a member of the Association of American Physicians.

Best Publications

  • The virtues in medical practice

    Edmund D. Pellegrino;David C. Thomasma

  • For the Patient's Good: The Restoration of Beneficence in Health Care

    Edmund D. Pellegrino;David C. Thomasma

  • Professionalism, profession and the virtues of the good physician

    Edmund D Pellegrino

  • A Philosophical Basis of Medical Practice: Toward a Philosophy and Ethic of the Healing Professions

    Edmund D. Pellegrino;David C. Thomasma

  • The Internal Morality of Clinical Medicine: A Paradigm for the Ethics of the Helping and Healing Professions

    Edmund D. Pellegrino

  • Toward a reconstruction of medical morality: the primacy of the act of profession and the fact of illness.

    Edmund D. Pellegrino

  • Toward a virtue-based normative ethics for the health professions.

    Edmund D. Pellegrino

  • The metamorphosis of medical ethics : a 30-year retrospective

    E. D. Pellegrino

  • The commodification of medical and health care: the moral consequences of a paradigm shift from a professional to a market ethic.

    Edmund D. Pellegrino

  • The rule of double effect: Clearing up the double talk

    Daniel P. Sulmasy;Edmund D. Pellegrino

  • President's Council on Bioethics.

    Edmund D. Pellegrino;F. Daniel Davis

  • Humanism and the physician

    Edmund D. Pellegrino

  • Ethical and Moral Guidelines for the Initiation, Continuation, and Withdrawal of Intensive Care

    Roger C. Bone;Eric C. Rackow;John G. Weg;Peter Butler

  • Toward a Reconstruction of Medical Morality

    Edmund D. Pellegrino

  • Virtues in Medical Practice

    Edmund D. Pellegrino;David C. Thomasma

  • Professional medical associations: ethical and practical guidelines.

    Edmund D. Pellegrino;Arnold S. Relman

  • Doctors must not kill

    Willard Gaylin;Leon R. Kass;Edmund D. Pellegrino;Mark Siegler

  • Decisions to withdraw life-sustaining treatment: a moral algorithm.

    Edmund D. Pellegrino

  • Altruism, Self-interest, and Medical Ethics

    Edmund D. Pellegrino

  • Clinical ethics revisited

    Peter A Singer;Edmund D Pellegrino;Mark Siegler

  • Is truth telling to the patient a cultural artifact

    Edmund D. Pellegrino

  • Ethics, trust, and the professions : philosophical and cultural aspects

    Edmund D. Pellegrino;Robert M. Veatch;John Langan

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter A. Singer
Peter A. Singer National University of Singapore
Arnold Schecter
Arnold Schecter The University of Texas at Austin
Russell F. Doolittle
Russell F. Doolittle University of California, San Diego
David Schubert
David Schubert Salk Institute for Biological Studies
Mildred K. Cho
Mildred K. Cho Stanford University
Arthur L. Caplan
Arthur L. Caplan New York University
Susan Dorr Goold
Susan Dorr Goold University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Robert M. Veatch
Robert M. Veatch Georgetown University

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