Tom Lamar Beauchamp (born 1939) is an American philosopher specializing in the work of David Hume, moral philosophy, bioethics, and animal ethics.
He is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Georgetown University,[1] where he was Senior Research Scholar at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics.
[1] Beauchamp worked on the staff of the National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects of Biomedical and Behavioral Research, where he co-wrote the Belmont Report in 1978.
He subsequently joined with James Childress to write Principles of Biomedical Ethics (1979), the first major American bioethics textbook.
[5] A ceremony celebrating his career featured tributes from Maggie Little, Bill Blattner, Jeffrey Kahn, James Childress, Alexander Rosenberg, Patricia King, David DeGrazia, Wayne Davis, Jack DeGioia, and his children.