SLU Bioethics

09/14/2026

The final issue of the Catholic Health Association’s journal, Health Care Ethics USA (which began as a newsletter published by the Gnaegi Center), includes articles authored by several alumni (Christopher Ostertag, Emily Trancik, Becket Gremmels, and Mark Repenshek), a literature review by current PhD student Allison Bajada, and a review by PhD candidate Jacquelyn Harootunian-Cutts of alumna Jordan Mason’s recently published book!

CHA's A Guide for Planning & Reporting Community Benefit provides a comprehensive framework for nonprofit health care organizations to develop and strengthen their strategic approach to assessing. planning, implementing and reporting community benefit.

09/11/2026

Doug Davison (HCE Ph.D. Student) was recently published an article titled "VSED Should Not Be a Pathway to MAiD (Though Both Are Ethically Permissible)."

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Recent changes in aid in dying laws have led some to argue for a pathway from Voluntarily Stopping Eating and Drinking (VSED) to Medical Aid in Dying (MAiD). Proponents point to the Sontag case as de...

09/09/2026

Harold Braswell (HCE Faculty) recently published an article in a special article of the German journal Ethik in Der Medizin entitled “The Long Shadow of T4: Disability Bioethics and the ‘Right to Die’”

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Definition of the problem Recent years have witnessed the emergence of a subfield of bioethics called “Disability Bioethics.” This subfield’s goal is to reformulate bioethics from the perspective of disability studies and, more broadly, the disability rights movement. This article argues that ...

09/08/2026

Andrea Eidsvik (HCE Ph.D. Candidate) was recently published in BMJ journals. The article on Bioethics in Emily Dickinson is linked below:

09/04/2026

Helen Webster (HCE Ph.D. Student) and Jeffrey Bishop (HCE Faculty) have published a piece in the Annales des Mines, the oldest, continuously published French journal devoted to science and technology. Their piece is on the problematic descriptions of neurotechnologies in public discourse and marketing.

09/03/2026

Jeffrey Bishop (HCE Faculty) has published a paper describing the spiritual traditions and the liminal spaces from which medicine emerges and our spiritual yearnings should inform our approaches to Artificial Intelligence.

Jeffrey Bishop on crossing boundaries. 

08/20/2026

Sam Berendes (HCE Ph.D. Student) just published an article in the HEC Forum titled "A War of All Against All? Futility, Value Impositions, and Professional Norms."

Read it here: https://link.springer.com/epdf/10.1007/s10730-026-09608-6?sharing_token=Uc9McBf9IqykdmRiryoWNfe4RwlQNchNByi7wbcMAY43lLWwT0THUsvLSO0ghtqfun8MGKqJVPWtjmFhM_lkxOcXkg5F03LA1QbG9xy2SkMZ0dNeuvgyjK9CcM8A1hcn6TyaB1xGfu3udq4HKXvjPx6HP_SLp-czolOyMO5p3U%3D

08/18/2026

Join us for the Annual Drummond Lecture on October 9th at SLU Hospital! This year's lecture will be given by Joel Reynolds, Ph.D. on disability and health equity in medicine. Please see the attached flyer for more information.

08/17/2026

Jeffrey Bishop (HCE Faculty) was asked by the Political Theology Network to write a commentary on Günther Anders’s recently translated book, The Obsolescence of the Human, published in 1956.

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When a prophet like Günther Anders speaks to us about the whole of what is happening in our time, when he does so with poetic urgency, we should sit up and pay attention to the dangers he names.

08/14/2026

Charles Love (HCE Ph.D. Candidate) recently published an article in The Journal of Clinical Ethics titled “Slow Trauma: Reframing Concepts of Moral Injury in Trauma-Informed Ethics Consultation”

Read it here: https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/741885