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This podcast is a channel on the New Books Network. The New Books Network is an academic audio library dedicated to public education. In each episode you will hear scholars discuss their recently published research with another expert in their field.

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The Ethics of Precision Medicine and Burned Agency with Paul Scherz and Travis Pickell

October 19, 2026

Paul Scherz (0:01)

Welcome to The New Books Network.

David Carlson (0:05)

My name is David Carlson. I am with the University of Notre Dame Press. Thank you for joining us today for a slightly unusual, but I think quite exciting installment of our Books for Better Understanding series. Normally, we invite an author and a guest on to discuss a book, but today we have two authors discussing…

Paul Scherz is the Our Lady of Guadalupe Professor of Theology here at the University of Notre Dame where he researches the intersection of theology, science, medicine, and technology. He's interested in the role of virtue ethics of the stoic variety, especially in moral theology. In his scholarly publications…

Travis Pickell (2:46)

Yeah, great. Well, first of all, thanks for having me. It's such a joy to be able to do this. And talk to Paul who I've known for some time as well. And but to talk about his book, which I very much enjoyed getting a chance to read. So, yeah, my book comes from wrestling with some experiences that I had early on in…

But the very first week that I was there, a couple of things happened. I was assigned to be a teaching assistant for a large 350-person bioethics class with Jim Childress, which was very interesting even on its own terms to be able to start to ask questions that, or to realize that bioethics is about very deep…

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