Health Care Ethics
Informed by the Catholic, Jesuit values of Saint Louis University, the Department of Health Care Ethics is committed to interdisciplinary excellence in health care ethics teaching, research and service. The department fosters respectful, authentic dialogue about moral issues in health care delivery, biomedical research and public health oriented toward promoting human flourishing.
The department accomplishes this goal through undergraduate, professional, and doctoral
degree programs, aimed at creating a “culture of encounter” and fostering respect
for the dignity of all persons in their various cultural contexts. As scholar-practitioners
in philosophy, theology, medicine, law and the social sciences, the department’s faculty
and doctoral students engage independently and collaboratively in impactful research,
including through projects sponsored by the Albert Gnaegi Center for Bioethics. The
department is also committed to various forms of service to the College of Arts and
Sciences, the University, local health care institutions, the St. Louis region and
relevant academic disciplines.
Giving
The Saint Louis University Department of Health Care Ethics welcomes gifts that would provide funding for the various needs that are not typically covered by its regular operating budget. Because your generosity allows us to offer valuable opportunities to students and faculty, and to nurture our intellectual community, they are crucial to the continued success of the department.
Funds can be used to support student scholarships and awards, faculty awards for exceptional teaching and scholarship, visits by renowned scholars, travel expenses for scholarly conferences, specific research projects or for the recruitment and retention of our students.
All funds of at least $10,000 (paid over a maximum four-year period) established for the benefit of the Center for Health Care Ethics can be named for the donor or for someone whose memory the benefactor wishes to honor.
number of majors represented by students pursuing the health care ethics minor.
of current graduate students have at least one publication.
job placement rate for alumni of the Ph.D. program.
number of colleges in which Department of Health Care Ethics faculty teach courses.