Ethics on Call

Field Report from the American Society for Bioethics in the Humanities 2025 Annual Conference

Episode Summary

This episode includes three interviews recorded live from the floor of the exhibit hall of the ASBH annual conference in October 2025. Dan and Tom also discuss their takeaways and learnings from some of the papers and sessions at the conference, summarize the trends they see reflected in the field of bioethics today, and consider their implications for the Catholic health ministry.

Episode Notes

This episode includes three interviews recorded live from the floor of the exhibit hall of the ASBH annual conference in October 2025 with the following bioethicists:

Michael McCarthy, Associate Professor and the Graduate Program Director for Healthcare Mission Leadership at Loyola University Chicago
Laura Webster, Northwest Region Vice President of Ethics at Common Spirit Health; and
Jason Eberl, the Mader Chair in Health Care Ethics at St. Louis University.

Dan and Tom also discuss their takeaways and learnings from some of the papers and sessions at the conference, summarize the trends they see reflected in the field of bioethics today, and consider their implications for the Catholic health ministry.

You can find the article, books, and authors cited in this episode below:

Jerome Adams, M.D. Crisis and Chaos: Lessons from the Front Lines of the War Against COVID-19. Post Hill Press. 2023.

Dennis Gonzalez and Becket Gremmels. "Mission — Moving Beyond 'No Margin, No Mission' in Catholic Health Care." Health Progress (Spring 2025).

Rosemary Garland-Thomson

Alasdair MacIntyre. Dependent Rational Animals: Why Humans Need the Virtues. Open Court. 1999.