Ashley Moyse is a Research Fellow at HMC. His principal appointment is held at Baylor University where he is the Associate Professor of Bioethics in the Department of Religion. Prior to his appointment at Baylor, Ashley was the Assistant Professor of Medical Ethics and McDonald Scholar at the Center for Clinical Medical Ethics in the Department of Medicine at Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, NY (2022 – 2025). He was also the McDonald Postdoctoral Fellow in Christian Ethics and Public Life in Oxford’s Faculty of Theology and Religion (2018 – 2022) and the Postdoctoral Fellow in Theology and Science at Regent College, University of British Columbia (2017-2018).
Ashley trained first in the applied sciences and taught human anatomy and physiology, among other courses in health sciences for several years at the University of the Fraser Valley (Canada). While teaching in health sciences, he pursued postgraduate study in theology and bioethics at Trinity Western University (Canada) and Loyola University Chicago (USA), respectively. He then pursued further research in theology and ethics through the University of Newcastle (Australia), where he earned his doctorate.
His scholarly work, among other interests, examines moral formation in clinical practice, the cultural and technological forces shaping healthcare, and the lived experience of aging, dying, and suffering. Drawing on theological anthropology, phenomenology, and medical humanities, in addition to his expertise in theology and ethics, Ashley’s scholarship interrogates the moral possibilities of medicine amid late-modern crises of meaning and institutional trust. He is the author of three books and co-editor of more than ten. His scholarly writing can be found in several journals including New Blackfriars, Chrisian Bioethics, Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics, Journal of Population Ageing, American Journal of Bioethics, American Journal of Medicine, Religions, and Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy.
Select Publications:
Benjamin Frush, Ashley Moyse, and John Brewer Eberly, Jr. ‘“MAiD Specialists?” Specialization as a Feature of Bureaucracy, not Medicine, in Canada’, American Journal of Bioethics 25, no. 5 (2025): 53-56. Open peer commentary
Ashley John Moyse and Jordan Ashley Mason. ‘The Soul (Put to Work) in Medicine: A Response to Arthur Kleinman’, The New Blackfriars 106, no. 2 (2025): 143-155.
Jonathan M Cahill, Ashley J Moyse and Lydia S Dugdale. ‘Ruptured selves: moral injury and wounded identity’, Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy 26 (2023): 1-7
Jim Harris, Ashley Moyse, Gina Hadley, Sally Frampton et al. ‘Death and the doctor: the museum as a tool for understanding the needs of the dying’, University Museums and Collections Journal 16, no. 3 (2024): 25-37.
Resourcing Hope for Ageing and Dying in a Broken World: Wayfaring Through Despair. Afterword by Lydia S Dugdale. Anthem Religion and Society Series, edited by Yuri Contreras Vejar and Bryan S Turner. London: Anthem, 2022 (Paperback, 2024)
Ashley Moyse, ‘Janet Malek’s programmatic secularism? A dissent’, Christian Bioethics 28, no. 2 (2022): 99-108.
The Art of Living for a Technological Age: Toward a Humanizing Performance. Afterword by Brent P Waters. Dispatches Series, edited by Ashley John Moyse and Scott A Kirkland. Minneapolis: Fortress, 2021
Treating the Body in Medicine and Religion: Jewish, Christian, and Islamic Perspectives. Foreword by Jeffrey P. Bishop; Special introduction by H Tristram Engelhardt, Jr. Routledge Studies in Religion Series (Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2019 (Paperback, 2021)
