This year’s Herndon lecturer, Dr. Thomas Beauchamp, is one of the originators of the “principlist” approach to bioethics, which understands the principles of autonomy, nonmaleficence, beneficence, and justice as critical directives in bioethical reflection. Professor of Philosophy and a Senior Research Scholar in Georgetown University’s Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Beauchamp is widely known as the primary author of The Belmont Report and as co-author of The Principles of Biomedical Ethics. 

In his talk, Dr. Beauchamp will discuss the origins of the principlist approach, its critical evolution over the last three decades, and how principlism fares today in practical and theoretical bioethical reflection.

A light dinner will be served at 6:30pm, and the lecture will begin at 7:30pm

This event is free and open to the public, but RSVPs to Paul Ficklin-Alred (paul.ficklin-alred@emory.edu or 404.727.1208) are required.

Location

Emory University

Winship Ballroom

Dobbs University Center

Atlanta, GA, 30322

United States