About
Mr. Childress: James F. Childress is the Edwin B. Kyle Professor
of Religious Studies and Professor of Medical Education at the
University of Virginia, where he also directs the Institute for
Practical Ethics. He served as Chair of the Department of Religious
Studies, 1972-1975 and 1986-1994, as Principal of UVA's Monroe
Hill College from 1988 to 1991, and as co-director of the Virginia
Health Policy Center 1991-1999. In 1990 he was named Professor
of the Year in the state of Virginia by the Council for the Advancement
and Support of Education. He is the author of numerous articles
and several books in ethics, including Moral Responsibility
in Conflicts: Principles of Biomedical Ethics (with Tom L.
Beauchamp); Priorities in Biomedical Ethics; Who Should
Decide? Paternalism in Health Care;, and Practical Reasoning
in Bioethics. He also co-edited the Dictionary of Christian
Ethics (2nd ed.).
Childress
has served on several national committees addressing bioethics,
including the National Bioethics Advisory Commission, to which
he was appointed by President Clinton in 1996. He is a fellow
of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and an elected member
of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences.
In addition to teaching at UVA, he has been the Joseph P. Kennedy
Sr. Professor of Christian Ethics at the Kennedy Institute of
Ethics at Georgetown University (1975-79) and a Visiting Professor
at the University of Chicago Divinity School and Princeton University.
He has lectured at over one hundred colleges and universities.
Childress received his B.A. from Guilford College, his B.D. from
Yale Divinity School, and his M.A. and Ph.D. from Yale University.
