Matters of Life and Death

by Tom L. Beauchamp

Paperback in acceptable condition. Marks and stains on covers. Leading corners, edges and spine ends are worn. Pages are stained, slightly creased and dog-eared on lower leading corners. Binding is intact, contents are clear. AM

Genres: Philosophy

Paperback

First published January 1, 1980

About the author

Tom Lamar Beauchamp was an American philosopher specializing in the work of David Hume, moral philosophy, bioethics, and animal ethics. He was Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Georgetown University, where he was Senior Research Scholar at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics.
Beauchamp authored or co-authored several books on ethics and on Hume, including Hume and the Problem of Causation (1981, with Alexander Rosenberg), Principles of Biomedical Ethics (1985, with James F. Childress), and The Human Use of Animals (1998, with F. Barbara Orlans et al). He was the co-editor with R. G. Frey of The Oxford Handbook of Animal Ethics (2011). He was also the co-editor of the complete works of Hume, The Critical Edition of the Works of David Hume (1999), published by Oxford University Press.