ABP AMERICANBIOETHICS PROJECT

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• Ethics and Clinical Research

  Landmark article documenting ethically problematic research involving human subjects and calling attention to the need for stronger ethical standards in clinical research.
• Ruth Faden

  American bioethics scholar whose work on informed consent, autonomy, justice, and public health ethics has contributed to research ethics and broader debates about health and social justice.
• Daniel Callahan

  American bioethics scholar and institution builder who co-founded The Hastings Center and helped establish bioethics as a sustained interdisciplinary field of inquiry.
• Henry K. Beecher

  American physician and anesthesiologist whose work helped make the ethics of research involving human subjects a central concern of American bioethics.
• The Patient as Person

  Paul Ramsey’s influential 1970 work examining the moral dimensions of medical care, research, consent, and the physician-patient relationship through a theological account of covenant and fidelity.
• Patricia A. King

  American legal scholar and civil rights lawyer whose work helped shape American bioethics through national ethics commissions, health law, and sustained attention to justice, race, and the social dimensions of biomedical policy.
• Paul Ramsey

  American Christian ethicist and Methodist lay theologian whose work helped shape the emergence of bioethics in the United States, particularly through his contributions to medical ethics, research ethics, informed consent, and debates over the moral limits of biomedical innovation.