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Overview

Tom L. Beauchamp is affiliated with Georgetown University in the United States and has made contributions primarily within the fields of Medicine and Health Professions. Their work spans various subfields, including General Health Professions, Small Animals, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, and Physiology.

The research topics frequently addressed by Beauchamp involve Ethics in medical practice, Animal testing and alternatives, Ethics and Legal Issues in Pediatric Healthcare, Biomedical Ethics and Regulation, Patient Dignity and Privacy, Medical and Health Sciences Research, and Legal principles and applications.

Beauchamp's recent scholarly papers include:

  • "Common Morality Principles in Biomedical Ethics: Responses to Critics" (2021) published in Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics
  • "The Origins and Drafting of the Belmont Report" (2020) published in Perspectives in biology and medicine
  • "Response to Commentaries" (2020) published in The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy A Forum for Bioethics and Philosophy of Medicine
  • "On Conditions that Compromise Autonomous Choice" (2020) published in The Journal of Law Medicine & Ethics
  • "Lucky Me: The Amiable and Weighty Influences on My Career" (2020) published in The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy A Forum for Bioethics and Philosophy of Medicine

Among the frequent co-authors collaborating with Beauchamp are:

  • David DeGrazia
  • James F. Childress

The venues where Beauchamp has most frequently published include:

  • The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy A Forum for Bioethics and Philosophy of Medicine
  • Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics
  • Perspectives in biology and medicine
  • The Journal of Law Medicine & Ethics
  • Dialogue and Universalism

Beauchamp has also contributed to academic literature through book publications, notably with Oxford University Press. One such book is "Principles of Animal Research Ethics" published in 2020.

Best Publications

  • Principles of biomedical ethics

    Tom L Beauchamp;James F Childress

  • An enquiry concerning human understanding : a critical edition

    David Hume;Tom L. Beauchamp

  • Ethical Theory and Business

    Tom L. Beauchamp;Norman E. Bowie

  • An Ethics Framework for a Learning Health Care System: A Departure from Traditional Research Ethics and Clinical Ethics

    Ruth R. Faden;Nancy E. Kass;Steven N. Goodman;Peter Pronovost

  • Contemporary Issues in Bioethics

    Tom L. Beauchamp;LeRoy Walters

  • Hume and the Problem of Causation

    Tom L. Beauchamp;Alexander Rosenberg

  • Methods and principles in biomedical ethics

    T L Beauchamp

  • Principles of Biomedical Ethics: Marking Its Fortieth Anniversary.

    Tom Beauchamp;James Childress

  • Medical ethics : the moral responsibilities of physicians

    Tom L. Beauchamp;Laurence B. McCullough

  • Informed consent: its history, meaning, and present challenges.

    Tom L. Beauchamp

  • Ethical issues in social science research

    R. Jay Wallace;Tom Beauchamp;Ruth R. Faden

  • Philosophical Ethics: An Introduction to Moral Philosophy

    Tom L. Beauchamp

  • The Research-Treatment Distinction: A Problematic Approach for Determining Which Activities Should Have Ethical Oversight

    Nancy E. Kass;Ruth R. Faden;Steven N. Goodman;Peter Pronovost

  • Informed consent, comparative effectiveness, and learning health care.

    Ruth R. Faden;Tom L. Beauchamp;Nancy E. Kass

  • A dissertation on the passions ; The natural history of religion : a critical edition

    David Hume;Tom L. Beauchamp

  • The Oxford Handbook of Animal Ethics

    Tom L. Beauchamp;R. G. Frey

  • Ethics and epidemiology

    Steven S. Coughlin;Steven S. Coughlin;Tom L. Beauchamp;Douglas L. Weed

  • The Concept of Voluntary Consent

    Robert M. Nelson;Tom Beauchamp;Victoria A. Miller;William Reynolds

  • A Defense of the Common Morality

    Tom L. Beauchamp

  • The virtuous journalist

    Stephen Klaidman;Tom L. Beauchamp

Frequent Co-Authors

Ruth R. Faden
Ruth R. Faden Johns Hopkins University
Nancy E. Kass
Nancy E. Kass Johns Hopkins University
Mary Frances Luce
Mary Frances Luce Duke University
Alexander Rosenberg
Alexander Rosenberg Duke University
Benjamin S. Wilfond
Benjamin S. Wilfond University of Washington
Dan W. Brock
Dan W. Brock Harvard University
Arthur L. Caplan
Arthur L. Caplan New York University
Guy M. McKhann
Guy M. McKhann Johns Hopkins University
Holly A. Taylor
Holly A. Taylor Tufts University
Daniel C. Dennett
Daniel C. Dennett Tufts University

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