H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr.
Professor of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine
Professor of Philosophy, Rice University
H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr. holds full professorships at both Baylor College of Medicine and Rice University and is a member of the Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy. He is the editor of the Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, co-editor of Christian Bioethics, co-editor of the Philosophy and Medicine book series with over sixty volumes in print, co-editor of the book series Clinical Medical Ethics, and editor of the series Philosophical Studies in Contemporary Culture. Engelhardt has authored over two hundred fifty articles and chapters of books in addition to numerous book reviews and other publications. There have been over one hundred twenty reprintings or translations of his publications. He has also co-edited more than twenty-five volumes and has lectured widely throughout the world. His books include Bioethics and Secular Humanism: The Search for a Common Morality and the second, thoroughly revised edition of The Foundations of Bioethics, which has appeared in Chinese, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, and Spanish. A Chinese translation of Bioethics and Secular Humanism appeared in 1998. His most recent work is The Foundations of Christian Bioethics, which appeared in the summer of 2000.
Professor Engelhardt has participated in all of the Center's fall conferences and regularly serves as a resource person for our Philip and Doris Clarke Family Medical Ethics Conference, delivering the J. Philip Clarke Family Lecture on Medical Ethics in 1992.
