Teaches courses in religion and science, theological ethics, and applied ethics, especially bioethics.  Before coming to Davidson in 2005, served as Director of Rice University’s Program on Biotechnology, Religion, and Ethics; Academic Director at the Institute of Religion in the Texas Medical Center; Fellow in Theological Ethics at the Center for Medical Ethics at Baylor College of Medicine; and staff ethicist for Governor Mario Cuomo’s New York State Task Force on Life and the Law.  Founding co-editor of Christian Bioethics. For seven years, senior editor of the multi-volume Bioethics Yearbook series. For six years, Director and co-P.I. of "Altering Nature," a study of religious perspectives on biotechnology funded by the Ford Foundation. Former columnist for Commonweal magazine.

Has published 10 books in bioethics, theological ethics, and health care policy, including, most recently, Altering Nature: Religion, Biotechnology, and Public Policy (2008). Author of more than 160 other publications for both scholarly and general audiences. Currently a member of the editorial board of The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy and of the advisory board of Christian Bioethics.  

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Email: anlustig@davidson.edu