An Interview with Tom Beauchamp, Early Bioethics Innovator by Elizabeth Galt

“…Tom Beauchamp, PhD, has been a principle pioneer in the field of bioethics. …”
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Principlism in the daily practice of family medicine by Ana Catarina Fortunato Silva, Hernâni Pombas Caniço, Susana Rosa Lopes, Margarida Silvestre

“… Introduction: Principlism, from Tom Beauchamp and James Childress, is the most widely accepted theory in biomedical ethics. …”
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The eco-ethical contribution of Menico Torchio – a forgotten pioneer of European Bioethics by Iva Rincic, Amir Muzur, Cristina Richie

“…The former was developed by Tom Beauchamp from the Philosophy Department and James Childress of the Religious Studies department at Georgetown University and is based on principlism, with a narrow focus on medical settings. …”
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A Critique of Principlism by Samuel Dale

“…However, as medicine advanced, increasingly complex biomedical issues created problems that required greater appeals to theory.[7] The “heroic” phase of bioethics saw “theorists aspire to construct symmetrical cathedrals of normative thought.”[8] In the wake of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study, Tom Beauchamp and James Childress helped draft the Belmont Report, a bulwark intended to prevent future atrocities in human research trials. …”
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