Henry Knowles Beecher Award
The Hastings Center’s Henry Knowles Beecher Award recognizes individuals who have made a lifetime contribution to ethics and the life sciences and whose careers have been devoted to excellence in scholarship, research, and ethical inquiry. Recipients are nominated by a committee of Hastings Center Fellows. The award is named after the first recipient, the late Henry Knowles Beecher, MD, a distinguished physician in the field of anesthesiology who, in the 1960’s, courageously shed light on ethically questionable practices in human subjects research. By those actions, Dr. Beecher helped give birth to the field of bioethics and became one of its pioneers. After receiving the Beecher Award recipients customarily deliver a public lecture. Recent Beecher Award lectures can be viewed on our YouTube channel.
Recipients of the Henry Knowles Beecher Award
Ruth Faden, PhD, MPH, 2019
Dan W. Brock, PhD, 2018
Albert Jonsen, PhD, and Edward Frank Shotter, 2017
Leon R. Kass, MD, PhD, 2016
Renee C. Fox, PhD, 2015
Ruth Macklin, PhD, 2014
Robert M. Veatch, PhD, 2013
Thomas H. Murray, PhD, 2012
Solomon R. Benatar, MBChB, DSc (Med) and Ren-Zong Qiu, 2011
Tom L. Beauchamp, PhD and James F. Childress, PhD, 2010
Alexander M. Capron, LLB, 2009
Joanne Lynn, MD, MS, MA, 2008
Edmund D. Pellegrino, MD, MACP, 2003
Alastair V. Campbell, MA, BD, ThD, 1999
Raanan Gillon, MB, BS, FRCP, 1999
Danner Clouser, PhD, 1996
Sissela Bok, PhD, 1996
Jay Katz, MD, 1993
Daniel Callahan, PhD, 1989
Willard Gaylin, MD, 1989
Richard A. McCormick, SJ, 1988
Robert S. Morison, MD, 1984
Paul Ramsey, PhD, 1981
Joseph Fletcher, STD, 1981
Hans Jonas, PhD, 1978
Henry Knowles Beecher, MD, 1976