Bioethics founder, Georgetown Professor Pellegrino passes away

June 17, 2013

One of the most prominent founders of the field of bioethics and a longtime professor and professor emeritus at Georgetown passed away yesterday at the age of 92. Dr. Edmund D. Pellegrino, who would have been 93 on June 22, was Professor Emeritus of Medicine and Medical Ethics and senior scholar at Georgetown’s Kennedy Institute of Ethics. Considered one of the founders of bioethics and an early pioneer in teaching humanities in medical schools, he was the author of more than 600 published articles in medical science, philosophy and ethics and author or co-author of 23 books. (Georgetown University)