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People & Perspectives: Tom Beauchamp, PhD - In the Beginning



Dr. Beauchamp was interested in human rights and social justice as a teenager. He describes the educational path that led him to the Kennedy Institute, his role on the National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects and the creative process behind the Belmont Report. (November, 2013)

People & Perspectives (P&P) is a digital story-telling library supported by PRIM&R (Public Responsibility in Medicine & Research). 

P&P features stories of those working in the research field, including IRB and IACUC professionals, research staff, committee members, institutional officials, researchers, subjects, advocates, regulators, industry representatives, ethicists, and anyone else who considers themselves part of the human subjects and animal care and use enterprise.