Pacific School of Religion
Associate Professor of Christian Ethics
Core Doctoral Faculty Member

At GTU since 1991

Ph.D., Graduate Theological Union, 1991
M.A., De Paul University, 1979
B.A., St. Marys College, 1975

Phone: 510/ 848-0528
E-mail: mmendiola@psr.edu

Current Research and Teaching Interests

• Biomedical ethics—assisted suicide and genetics in particular
• Sexual ethics—gay and lesbian issues in particular
• The conceptual and practical interrelationships of religious faith and practice and human health
• Human suffering and its implications for biomedical ethics

Selected Publications

• "Religious Ethics and Public Policy," in a collection of essay on religious ethics and bioethics (University Publishing Group, forthcoming).
• Ernie W. D. Young et al. "Physician Aid-in-Dying: Report of a Northern California Consensus Development Conference, The Challenges of Guideline and Policy Formation," Western Journal of Medicine 166: 6 (June 1997), 381-388. [Professor Mendiola was on the Editorial Board and a prinicpal author of this report].
• "Religious Ethics, Bioethics and Public Policy: Cost or Contribution?" in Notes from a Narrow Ridge: Religion and Bioethics, edited by Dean S. Davis and Laurie Zoloth, with a foreword by Martin E. Marty, 183-199 (Hagerstown: University Publishing Group, 1999).
• "Through a Glass Darkly: Suffering and Physician-Assisted Suicide," in Der Medizinisch Assistierte Tod [Studien zur Theologischen Ethik, University of Fribourg] forthcoming.