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Harmless Error and Other Forays into Bioethics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 August 2002

JOHN J. PARIS
Affiliation:
John J. Paris, S.J., is Michael P. Walsh Professor of Bioethics at Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts

Extract

How does a self-described “simple teacher of religion” at the College of the Holy Cross get involved in bioethics? Nothing in my training or experience had prepared me for involvement in medicine. Much like that of my moral theology professor and then mentor, Richard McCormick, my training was in moral theology and social ethics. I also had an abiding interest in the courts and constitutional law. That interest led to a doctoral dissertation at the University of Southern California's Program in Social Ethics on “The Supreme Court's Understanding of Religion in Conscientious Objector Cases.” Interestingly, doctoral work in the late 1960s on the ethical dimension of war was the starting point for other ethicists such as Leroy Walters and James Childress who subsequently became early voices in bioethics.

Type
SPECIAL SECTION: FIRST VOICES
Copyright
© 2002 Cambridge University Press

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