Articles

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The Last Shall Be First: Human Potential in Genetic and Theological Perspectives, Theology and Science (2011)

The notion of “human potential” provides a fruitful window through which to explore the competing...

 

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review of "Conceiving Parenthood: American Protestantism and the Spirit of Reproduction," by Amy Laura Hall, Studies in Christian Ethics (2010)
 

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Docile Bodies: Transnational Research Ethics as Biopolitics, Journal of Medicine and Philosophy (2009)

This essay explores the claim that bioethics has become a mode of biopolitics. It seeks...

 

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review of Approaching the End: A Theological Exploration of Death and Dying, by David Albert Jones, Modern Theology (2009)
 

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“Ten Decades to a More Christ-like You!”: Liturgy as God's Workout Plan for the Church “Ten Decades to a More Christ-like You!”: Liturgy as God's Workout Plan for the Church, Liturgy (2008)
 

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Review of The Church on the Margins: Living Christian Community, by Mary R. Sawyer, NWSA Journal (2007)
 

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A Call to Activism, review of "Theological Bioethics," by Lisa Cahill, Commonweal (2007)

Dr. Lysaught reviews Lisa Cahill's book Theological Bioethics: Participation, Justice, and Change.

 

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review of Political Worship: Ethics for Christian Citizens, by Bernd Wannenwetsch, Modern Theology (2006)
 

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Respect: Or, How Respect for Persons Became Respect for Autonomy, Journal of Medicine and Philosophy (2004)

This article provides an intellectual archeology of how the term “respect” has functioned in the...

 

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Review of “The Church in a Postliberal Age,” by George Lindbeck, Horizons (2004)

Dr. Lysaught reviews George Lindbeck's book The Church in a Postliberal Age.

 

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Review of "Health Care and the Ethics of Encounter: A Jewish Discussion of Social Justice," by Laurie Zoloth, Feminist Approaches to Bioethics Newsletter (2001)

Dr. Lysaught reviews Laurie Zoloth's book Health Care and the Ethics of Encounter: A Jewish...

 

Presentations

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Neuroscience, Politics, and the Secularization of Virtue and Vice (with Jeffrey P. Bishop and Andrew Michel), University of Notre Dame, Center for Ethics and Culture, Conference on Radical Emancipation: Confronting the Challenge of Secularism (2011)

In his groundbreaking book Theology and Social Theory (1990), John Milbank attends to the role...

 

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Medicine as Friendship with God, Annual Meeting of the American Society of Bioethics and Humanities (2011)

Over the past thirty years, a variety of proposals have been put forward for seeking...

 

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Corporeality and the Corporation: The Duty to Participate in Biomedical Research as Biopolitics, Center for Bioethics, University of Minnesota (2011)

Over the past three decades, an enormous transformation has occurred in the political economy of...

 

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Anointing the Sick? Practicing Religion in the Clinical Context, Center for Spirituality, Theology, and Health, Duke University Medical School (2010)

Theologians and Christians cannot be but encouraged by the new focus on spirituality and medicine....

 

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Corporations, CROs and Profit: Ethics in the New Bio-Political Economy of Globalized Biomedical Research, Annual Meeting of the Society of Christian Ethics (2010)

A main catalyst in the emergence of the bioethics was the abuse of human subjects....

 

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Corporations, CROs and Globalized Biomedical Research: Is Belmont Obsolete?, American Academy of Religion (2009)

Christian and Jewish theologians and philosophers were key figures in shaping the normative principles for...

 

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Friendship with God: Anointing the Sick as a Theological Hermeneutic, Society of Christian Ethics (2008)

A theological bioethic needs, first, a theological politics. This paper rests on the claim that...

 

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"Rise Up and Walk": Healed Bodies and the Performance of the Resurrection, The American Academy of Religion (2007)

If we wish to plumb the implications of the resurrection for materiality, one small but...

 

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Keywords in Bioethics: RESPECT, or How Respect for Persons became Respect for Autonomy, American Society for Bioethics and Humanities (2002)

With the promulgation of the Belmont Report (1979) and the concurrent publication of the first...