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72Arts of Dying and the Statecraft of KillingStudies in Christian Ethics 29 (3): 261-268. 2016.Those supporting laws permitting assisted suicide (AS) seem to enact a thin morality, one that permits people who desire AS to get it in the terminal stages of an illness, and that provide safeguards both for those who desire AS and do not desire it. This article explores the way in which all AS legislation subtly frames the question of AS such that AS becomes the clearest option; ensconcing AS in law also gives a moral legitimacy to suicide. Thus, the morality of laws permitting AS are not mora…Read more
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189Fides Ancilla Medicinae: On the Ersatz Liturgy of Death in Biopsychosociospiritual MedicineHeythrop Journal 49 (1). 2007.
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131Rejecting Medical Humanism: Medical Humanities and the Metaphysics of MedicineJournal of Medical Humanities 29 (1): 15-25. 2008.The call for a narrative medicine has been touted as the cure-all for an increasingly mechanical medicine. It has been claimed that the humanities might create more empathic, reflective, professional and trustworthy doctors. In other words, we can once again humanise medicine through the addition of humanities. In this essay, I explore how the humanities, particularly narrative medicine, appeals to the metaphysical commitments of the medical institution in order to find its justification, and in…Read more
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Saint Louis UniversityDepartment of Philosophy
Center for Health Care Ethics
Department of Theological StudiesTenet Endowed Chair
St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America
Areas of Specialization
| Social and Political Philosophy |
| 20th Century Philosophy |
| Continental Philosophy |
| Metaphysics |