Assoc. Prof. David Kirchhoffer

BSc (Wits), MPhil (St Augustine College of South Africa), MTS (KULeuven), MAS (KULeuven), PhD (KULeuven), STD (KULeuven)

Dr David G. Kirchhoffer is the Director of the Queensland Bioethics Centre at Australian Catholic University, and is based at its McAuley Campus in Banyo, Brisbane. He is also affliated with the school of Theology and the Institute for Religion and Critical Inquiry. In addition to numerous peer-reviewed articles and translations of scholarly texts, he is the author of Human Dignity in Contemporary Ethics (2013), and Co-Editor of Beyond Autonomy: Limits and Alternatives to Informed Consent in Research Ethics and Law.

David Kirchhoffer (0000-0003-2902-2513) (orcid.org)

 

Publications

Books

2019

Kirchhoffer D.G. and B.J. Richards (eds). Beyond Autonomy: On the Limits and Alternatives to Informed Consent in Research Ethics and Law, Cambridge Bioethics and Law. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108649247

2013

Kirchhoffer D. Human Dignity and Contemporary Ethics. Amherst, NY: Teneo Press. Human Dignity in Contemporary Ethics eBook : Kirchhoffer, David: Amazon.com.au: Kindle Store

Kirchhoffer, D.G., R. Horner, P. McArdle. (eds) Being Human: Groundwork for a Theological Anthropology for the 21^st Century. Melbourne: Mosaic Books/Eugene, OR: Wipf & Stock.

 

Book Chapters

2019

Kirchhoffer, D.G. 2019. Introduction: The Limits of Respect for Autonomy. In Beyond Autonomy: On the Limits and Alternatives to Informed Consent in Research Ethics and Law, Cambridge Bioethics and Law. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108649247.001

Kirchhoffer, D.G., C.D. Favor, C.D. Cordner. Beneficence in Research Ethics. In Beyond Autonomy: On the Limits and Alternatives to Informed Consent in Research Ethics and Law, Cambridge Bioethics and Law. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108649247.007

Kirchhoffer, D.G. Dignity, Being and Becoming in Research Ethics. In Beyond Autonomy: On the Limits and Alternatives to Informed Consent in Research Ethics and Law, Cambridge Bioethics and Law. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108649247.008 

2018

Kirchhoffer, D.G. How Ecology can Save the Life of Theology: A Philosophical Contribution to the Engagement of Ecology and Theology. In Theology and Ecology Across the Disciplines: On Care for our Common Home, ed. C. Deane-Drummond and R. Artinian-Kaiser. London: Bloomsbury T&T Clark. https://doi.org/10.5040/9780567672766.ch-005

2016

Kirchhoffer, D.G. Questioning Human Dignity: The Dimensions of Dignity Model as a Bridge Between Cosmopolitanism and the Particular. In Religion and Culture in Dialogue: East and West Perspectives, ed. J. Ozolins. Dordrecht: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25724-2_11

2015

Kirchhoffer, D.G. Human Dignity and Personhood. In Health Care Ethics: Theory to Practice, ed. J. Grainger and J. Ozolins. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9781107589834.004

2014

Kirchhoffer, D.G. Turtles All the Way Down? Pressing Questions for Theological Anthropology in the Twenty-First Century. In Questioning the Human: Toward a Theological Anthropology for the Twenty-First Century, ed. L. Boeve, Y. De Maeseneer, and E. Van Stichel. New York: Fordham University Press. https://doi.org/10.5422/fordham/9780823257522.003.0012 

2013

Kirchhoffer, D.G. The Challenges Facing Theological Anthropology Today. In Being Human: Groundwork for a Theological Anthropology for the 21^st Century, ed. D.G. Kirchhoffer, R. Horner, P. McArdle. Melbourne: Mosaic Books. https://acuresearchbank.acu.edu.au/item/89y06/reading-the-signs-of-the-times-the-challenges-facing-theological-anthropology-today

Kirchhoffer, D.G. Between Revelation and Reason: Human Dignity in Karl Barth and Gaudium et Spes. In Being Human: Groundwork for a Theological Anthropology for the 21^st Century, ed. D.G. Kirchhoffer, R. Horner, P. McArdle. Melbourne: Mosaic Books. https://acuresearchbank.acu.edu.au/item/86v24/between-revelation-and-reason-human-dignity-in-karl-barth-and-gaudium-et-spes

Dierickx, K., and D.G. Kirchhoffer. Menschenwürde und Biobanken. In Menschenwürde und Medizin: Ein interdisziplinäres Handbuch, ed. Eric Hilgendorf, Jan C. Joerden and Felix Thiele. Berlin: Duncker & Humblot.

2011

Dierickx, K., and D.G. Kirchhoffer. New medical technologies and the ethical challenges for minors from the perspective of human dignity. In Menschenwürde und moderne Medizintechnik, Interdisziplinäre Studien zu Recht und Staat, vol. 50, ed. Jan C. Joerden, Eric Hilgendorf, Natalia Petrillo, Felix Thiele, 375-392. Baden-Baden: Nomos, 2011. 

 

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

2022

Kirchhoffer, D. G. (2022). Dignity, conscience and religious pluralism in healthcare: An argument for a presumption in favour of respect for religious belief. Bioethics, 1 - 10. https://doi.org/10.1111/bioe.13110

2021

Thomas, J., J. Harraway and D. Kirchhoffer. Non?invasive prenatal testing: clinical utility and ethical concerns about recent advances. Medical Journal of Australia 214, 4: 168-170.e1 https://doi.org/10.5694/mja2.50928

Kirchhoffer, D.G., and C-W. Lui. Public reasoning about voluntary assisted dying: An analysis of submissions to the Queensland Parliament, Australia. Bioethics 35, 1: 105&ndash116. https://doi.org/10.1111/bioe.12777 

2020

Kirchhoffer, D. Dignity, Autonomy, and Allocation of Scarce Medical Resources During COVID-19. Bioethical Inquiry 17, 691&ndash696.

2017 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11673-020-09998-3

Kirchhoffer, D.G. Human Dignity and Human Enhancement: A Multidimensional Approach. Bioethics 31, 5: 375-383.

2016 https://doi.org/10.1111/bioe.12343

Kirchhoffer, D.G. The Roman Catholic Church on the Secularization of the Concept of Human Dignity. Louvain Studies 39, 3: 240-260.

2014 https://doi.org/10.2143/ls.39.3.3170048

Kirchhoffer, D.G. and N. Lindner L&rsquoHuillier. Preparing for the Synod on the Family: The Australian Response. INTAMS Review 20: 111-117.

2013 https://doi.org/10.2143/INT.20.1.3036703

Kirchhoffer, D.G. What Have We Learned: Catholic Social Thought and the Movements in Australia. Journal of Catholic Social Thought 10, 2: 401-412. https://doi.org/10.5840/jcathsoc201310223

Kirchhoffer, D.G. The Concept of Human Dignity in Tertiary Campus Ministry: More than Hot Air. Journal of the Tertiary Campus Ministry Association 5, 1: 15-24. 

2012

Dierickx, K., and D.G. Kirchhoffer. Human Dignity and Biobanks. In Jahrbuch für Recht und Ethik/ Annual Review of Law and Ethics, 20, 247-258.

Kirchhoffer, D.G. and K. Dierickx. Human dignity and consent in research biobanking, South African Journal of Bioethics and Law, 5, 2, 74-77.

Kirchhoffer, D.G. Human dignity and the moral status of animals, Southern African Public Law, 27, 1, 116-132. http://hdl.handle.net/10.10520/ejc153181

2011

Kirchhoffer, D.G. Bioethics and the Demise of the Concept of Dignity: Has Medicine Killed Ethics? Human Reproduction and Genetic Ethics 17, 2, 141-154.

Kirchhoffer, D.G., and K. Dierickx. Human Dignity and Human Tissue: A Meaningful Ethical Relationship? Journal of Medical Ethics 37, 9, 552-556.

2010

Kirchhoffer, D.G. Benedict XVI, Human Dignity and Absolute Moral Norms. New Blackfriars, 91, 1035, 586-608.

2009

Kirchhoffer, D.G. Become What You Are: On the Value of the Concept of Human Dignity as an Ethical Criterion in Light of Contemporary Critiques. Bijdragen, 70, 1, 45-66.

2007

Kirchhoffer, D.G. Pope Benedict XVI on the Dignity of the Human Person: A Blessing or a Curse for the European Project? Bulletin ET, 18, 1-2, 155-169.

Kirchhoffer, D.G. Sacrament and Being: On Overcoming Ontotheology in Sacramental Theology. Questions Liturgiques/Studies in Liturgy, 88, 2, 143-156.

 

Ethics, Practical Theology.

Ethics, Moral Theology.

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