Edmund D. Pellegrino, preeminent bioethicist, dies at 92

June 20, 2013

Edmund D. Pellegrino, a physician and former Catholic University president who was a leading figure in bioethics, a field of inquiry that has pushed doctors, patients and society at large to confront essential quandaries of caring for the sick, died June 13 at his home in Bethesda. He was 92. (Washington Post obituary)