Jeffrey P. Bishop, M.D., Ph.D.

Tenet Endowed Chair in Bioethics; professor of philosophy, professor of health care ethics; professor of theology
Department of Health Care Ethics

Education

Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Dallas
M.A. in philosophy from the University of Dallas
Internal Medicine Residency Training from the UT Southwestern Medical School
M.D. from the University of Texas Medical School
B.S. in theology from the Austin Graduate School of Theology (formerly the Institute for Christian Studies)
B.A. in zoology from the University of Texas

Bioethics, philosophy of medicine; history of philosophy; medicine and spirituality.

Books

Bishop, J. P., Lysaught, M.T., Michel, A.A. (2022). Biopolitics After Neuroscience: Morality and the Economy of Virtue. Bloomsbury Academic.
Bishop, J. P. (2011). The Anticipatory Corpse: Medicine, Power, and the Care of the Dying. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press.

Journal Articles

Bishop, J.P. (2025) “Intuiting the Excess: Science, Interpretation, and the Transcendence of Life”  Modern Theology
Bishop, J.P. (2025) “On the Liturgical Consummation of Any Future Enhancement: A Prolegomena” Christian Bioethics 
Mason, J., Malone, J, Bishop, J.P.,. (2025) “Ritual and Power in Medicine: Questioning Honor Walks in Organ Donation” HEC Forum 
Bishop, J.P. (2023) “Transhumanism’s Weird Religion: On the Ontotheological Morality of the Posthuman” Philosophy, Theology and the Sciences 10(2): 175-198.

Opinion Editorials

From Essay to Disputation: The Liberal Arts in the Age of AI (with Charles Freiberg) Church Life Journal 10 April 2025.
The Resurrection of the Bodies We Have. Jeffrey P. Bishop, Church Life Journal 30 April 2024.
Toward a Liturgical Cosmotechnics. Jeffrey P. Bishop, Church Life Journal 11 March 2024
What is Man that AI is Mindful of Him. Jeffrey P. Bishop, Church Life Journal 19 February 2024.
MAiD: Culture, Meaning, and Death. Jeffrey P. Bishop, Church Life Journal 7 November 2023.
Don’t succumb to the temptation to reduce wholes to the sum of their parts: On free will and scientific explanation. Jeffrey P. Bishop ABC Religion and Ethics 23 October 2023.