David B. Fletcher

Fellow

Dr. David B. Fletcher teaches at Wheaton College in the areas of bioethics, applied and social ethics, and ethical theory, and chaired the philosophy department for three years. He also teaches in the Bioethics program at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, where he is a Fellow of The Center for Bioethics and Human Dignity, and was Visiting Scholar at Oxford University in 1991.

He helped to found The Center for Applied Christian Ethics at Wheaton College and today chairs its Steering Committee, was Vice President of the Illinois Philosophical Association (1997-1999), and serves on the editorial board of Ethics & Medicine. He serves on ethics committees of two health care institutions and is a frequent speaker to medical and community groups on bioethics. He has published in ethical theory, bioethics, and social philosophy, and has been interviewed for articles in U.S. News and World Report, the Chicago Tribune, and the Chicago Sun-Times, and has appeared on television.

He lives in Wheaton with his wife Joyce, a counselor at College of DuPage, and their son Andrew.

Representative publications include:

"Particular Divine Commands" in Mark Nelson, Michael Beaty, and Carlton Fisher, eds. , Christian Theism and Moral Philosophy (Mercer University Press, 1999).

Social and Political Perspectives in the Thought of Soren Kierkegaard (University Press of America, 1981).

"Professional Ethics," "Population Policy," "Dehumanization," "Professional Ethics," "Karl Marx," "Alienation," "Reproductive Technology," "Sterilization," "Birth Control," "Medical Malpractice," "Martin Luther King, Jr.," and "Surrogate Mothers" in David J. Atkinson, David F. Field, Arthur Holmes, and Oliver O'Donovan, eds; New Dictionary of Christian Ethics and Pastoral Theology (Intervarsity Press, 1995).

"Abortion and American Christianity" and "Protestant Personal Ethics" in Daniel Reid, Robert D. Linder, Bruce L. Shelley, and Harry S. Stout, eds., Dictionary of Christianity in America, (Intervarsity Press, 1990).

"Utilitarianism," "Polytheism," "Philosophy of Religion," "Unbelief," "Metaphysics," "Monism," "Understanding," and "Voluntarism," in Walter Elwell, ed., Evangelical Dictionary of Theology, (Grand Rapids, Baker, 1984, revised 1997).

Is There a Right to Health Care? (Center for Applied Christian Ethics Monographs, Wheaton College, 1991).

"Response to Nigel M. de S. Cameron's Bioethics and the Challenge of a Post-Consensus Society," Ethics & Medicine, Spring 1995 (11:1).

"The Difference that Family Makes," (On the Bioethics Front), Second Opinion April, 1993.

"More Reading on Euthanasia," Discernment 1:3 (Fall 1992): 6-7.

"Christian Social Justice and Rawls' Liberalism," Christian Scholar's Review 19:3 (March 1990): 231-242.

"Must Wolterstorff Sell His House?" Faith and Philosophy 4(2) (April, 1987): 187-197.

"Is There a Right to Health Care?" Christian Scholar's Review 16(3) (March, 1987): 283-299.