Should Clinical Medicine be Regulated like Research?

Event Details

Type

Other Tri-Institutional Events

Speaker(s)

5:00 p.m.: Tom L. Beauchamp, Ph.D., professor of philosophy (emeritus), philosophy department and senior research scholar (retired), Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Georgetown University

Speaker bio(s)

In 1978 Dr. Beauchamp co-wrote the Belmont Report, the U.S. government’s major statement of ethical principles for human research ethics, in his role as a member of the National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects of Biomedical and Behavior Research. Dr. Beauchamp is a Professor of Philosophy (Emeritus) and Senior Researcher Scholar at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics (Retired) at Georgetown University. He earned a B.D. from the Yale Divinity School in 1966 and a Ph.D. from The Johns Hopkins University in 1970. In 1975, Dr. Beauchamp joined the staff of the National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects of Biomedical and Behavioral Research. His research interests are in the ethics of human-subjects research, the place of universal principles and rights in biomedical ethics, methods of bioethics, philosopher David Hume and the history of modern philosophy, and business ethics. In 2004, Dr. Beauchamp was given the Lifetime Achievement Award of the American Society of Bioethics and Humanities, in recognition of outstanding contributions and significant publications in bioethics and the humanities.

Open to

Public

Host

Heberden Society

Contact

Nicole Milano

Phone

(212) 746-6072

Sponsor

Nicole Milano
(212) 746-6072
njm4001@med.cornell.edu

Notes

Co-sponsored with the Weill Cornell Medicine Division of Medical Ethics. Registration for this Zoom lecture is required at https://weillcornell.zoom.us/j/96251035709. A password will be provided through the registration link.