Jeffrey Bishop

Jeffrey P. Bishop, MD, PhD, holds the Tenet Endowed Chair in Bioethics and is Professor of Philosophy and of Theological Studies at Saint Louis University.The former director of the Albert Gnaegi Center for Health Care Ethics, he is most widely recognized and cited for work in medical ethics as relating to death and dying in addition to contributions in the field of medical humanities. Bishop is a physician, holds a Doctorate of Philosophy from the University of Dallas and serves on the editorial boards of both the Journal of Medicine and Philosophy and the Journal of Christian Bioethics for Oxford University Press. Trained as a physician and philosopher, his scholarship explores the philosophical, historical, and political foundations of contemporary scientific theories and practices, and contextualizes the truth claims of science, technology, medicine, and social science. He has published on wide-ranging topics such as medical humanities, science and religion, spirituality and medicine, as well as topics in the philosophy of technology from the use of AI in healthcare to the use of AI in automated weapon systems.