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

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 Harold Braswell Miguel Romero Devan Stahl Gerald McKenny Alasdair MacIntyre. Dependent Rational Animals: Why Humans Need the Virtues. Open Court. 1999. Subscribe to Ethics on Call on YouTube, Spotify, Apple or Simplecast. Visit our website, theologyandethics.org, for more information on the Center for Theology & Ethics in Catholic Health.