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Daniel J. Daly

Associate Professor of Moral Theology

Executive Director, Center for Theology and Ethics in Catholic Health

selected courses

  • AI Ethics
  • Virtue Ethics
  • Healthcare Ethics
  • End of Life Ethics
  • Christian Ethics and Social Structures

SELECTED publications

Peer-Reviewed Book

The Structures of Virtue and Vice (Washington D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 2021).

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles and Book Chapters 

Pathways of Holiness: Institutions, Moral Formation, and the Virtues, in Bothering to Love: James F. Keenan Retrieval and Reinvention of Catholic Ethics, eds. Christopher P. Vogt and Kate Ward (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 2024), 59-70.

Exemplarist Medical Ethics, Journal of Medical Ethics 50 (2024): 447-451.

Substance and Style in the Prolife Discourse Journal of Moral Theology 12, no.1 (2023): 135-138.

A Principlist Approach to Multiple Heart Valve Replacements for Patients with Intravenous Drug Use-Induced Endocarditis, Journal of Medical Ethics 48, no. 10 (2022): 685-688. It was selected as the Editor Choice by the editor for its special interest or importance.

The Virtuous Hospital: A Catholic Organizational Healthcare Ethics, The Journal of Healthcare Ethics & Administration 8, no. 2 (2022): 1-12.

 Virtue Ethics and Action Guidance, Theological Studies 82 (2021): 565-582. 

How Many Heart Valves Is One Person Owed? The Ethics of Multiple Valve Transplants for Patients with IVDU-Induced Endocarditis, Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics 41 (2021): 149-167.

 Social Structures and Public Health Ethics, in Ethical Challenges in Global Public Health: Climate Change, Pollution, and the Health of the Poor, ed. Philip J. Landrigan and Andrea Vicini (Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock, 2021), 84-95.

 Virtue Ethics, in T&T Clark Companion to Christian Ethics, ed. Tobias Winright (New York: T&T Clark, 2021), 59-70. 

 Guidelines for Rationing Treatment during the COVID-19 Crisis: A Catholic Approach, Health Progress 101 (2020): 50-56, (reprinted in Japanese in Shingaku Digest 129 [2020]: 116-24).

Critical Realism, Virtue Ethics, and Moral Agency, in Moral Agency within Social Structures and Culture, ed. Daniel Finn (Washington D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 2020), 89-101.

Who Counts as a Person? in Incarnate Grace: Catholic Perspectives on Health Care, ed. Charlie Bouchard (Saint Louis: Catholic Health Association Press, 2017), 93-108.

Confronting the Normative Abyss: The Challenges and Resources in Catholic Ethics for the Global Age, in Decentering Discussions on Religion and State Emerging Narratives, Challenging Perspectives, ed. Sargon Donabed and Autumn Grant (New York: Lexington Books, 2015), 157-77. 

Obama and the Common Good in The American Election 2012: Contexts and Consequences, ed. R. Ward Holder and Peter Josephson (New York: Palgrave, 2014), 279-90. 

 Unreasonable Means: Proposing a New Category for Catholic End of Life Ethics, Christian Bioethics 19 (2013): 40-59.

From Nature to Second Nature: The Relationship of the Natural Law and Acquired Virtues in the Summa theologiae, Angelicum 88 (2011): 693-715.

Structures of Virtue and Vice, New Blackfriars 92 (2011): 341-57.

The Relationship of Virtues and Norms in the Summa theologiae, Heythrop Journal 51 (2010): 214-29. 

Prudence and the Debate on Death and Dying, Health Progress 88 (2007): 49-54.

Editorial Positions

Founding Editor, Journal of Theology and Ethics in Catholic Health (launching in late 2026)

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