Body, Soul, and Bioethics

Gilbert Meilaender holds the Phyllis and Richard Duesenberg Chair in Christian Ethics at Valparaiso University, Indiana. He has served on the Board of Directors of the Society of Christian Ethics, as an Associate Editor of Religious Studies Review, and as an Associate Editor of the Journal of Religious Ethics. He is also a Fellow of the Hastings Center and was a member of the President's Council on Bioethics from 2002 to 2009. He is a Distinguished Fellow with The Center for Bioethics & Human Dignity. He is the author of Friendship: A Study in Theological Ethics (Notre Dame Press, 1981), The Theory and Practice of Virtue(Notre Dame Press, 1984), and Faith and Faithfulness: Basic Themes in Christian Ethics (Notre Dame Press, 1991). Meilaender has been a member of the President's Council on Bioethics since its inception in January 2002.

"Meilaender must be read. His diagnosis is astute, his logic cogent, and his arguments concise. Anyone interested in the present and future of bioethics must take this critique seriously." — Ethics"Meilaender offers a superb critique of much of what is wrong with bioethics today." —Theological Studies"[A] worthy read, particularly for Christians who have been engaged in 'doing bioethics' but have found the direction of development of the field troubling." —Christian Scholar's Review"There is no better stylist in theological ethics today than Gilbert C. Meilaender. The economy and simplicity of language with which he conveys serious conceptual content qualify him as a significant public intellectual." —Cross Currents