PEER REVIEWED ARTICLES
“Suffering Illness as an Ascetic: Lessons for Women in Pain,” Christian Bioethics (2023) 29 (3): 244-255.
“Misuses of ‘Quality of Life’ Judgments in End-of-Life Care,” CHEST (2023) 163 (5): 1228-1231.
Louisiana’s ‘Medically Futile’ Unborn Child List: Ethical Lessons at the post-Dobbs Intersection of Reproductive and Disability Justice, Hastings Center Report (2023) 53 (1): 3-6.
Why Medicine Needs a Theology of Monstrosity, Journal of Medicine and Philosophy (2022) 47(5): 612-624.
Intersections and Methods in Disability Theology: Bioethics and Critical Studies as Dialogue Partners, Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics (2022) 42(1): 153-168.
Understanding the Voices of Disability Advocates in Physician Assisted Suicide Debates, Christian Bioethics (2021) 27(3): 279-297.
The Continuing Need to Combat Disability Discrimination in Organ Transplantation, Surgery (2021) 171 (4): 1123-1125.
The Capacity to Designate a Surrogate is Distinct from Decisional Capacity: Normative and Empirical Considerations, Journal of Medical Ethics (2021)
Re-Imagining the Healing Service, Theology Today (2020) 77(2): 165-178.
Disability Rights as a Necessary Framework for Crisis Standards of Care and the Future of Health Care, Hastings Center Report (2020) 50(3): 28-32.
Jean Vanier on Beauty and Disability, Journal of Religion and Disability (2020) 24(2): 229-248.
A Process-Based Approach When Responding to Parents who Hope for a Miracle, Pediatrics (2020) 145(3): e20192319.
The Prophetic Challenge of Disability Art, Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics (2019) 39(2): 251-268.
Death by Neurological Criteria: Caring for Families amid Tragedy, (2019) Linacre Quarterly 86(4): 394-403.
Patient Reflections on the Disenchantment of Techno-Medicine, Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics (2018) 39(6): 499-513.
The Persisting Problem of Precedent Autonomy among Persons in a Minimally Conscious State: The Limitations of Philosophical Analysis and Clinical Assessment, AJOB Neuroscience (2018) 9(2): 120-127.
Responding to the Hope for a Miracle: Practices for Clinical Bioethics, American Journal of Bioethics (2018) 18(5): 40-51.
What Should be the Surgeon’s Role in Defining ‘Normal’ Genital Appearance, (2018) AMA Journal of Ethics 20(4): 384-391.
The Image of God, Bioethics, and Persons with Profound Intellectual Disabilities, (2017) Journal of the Christian Institute on Disability 6(1-2): 19-40.
Addressing a Terminally Ill Patient’s Hope for a Miracle, Journal of Pain and Symptom Management (2017) 55(2): 535-539.
Should DBS for Psychiatric Disorders Be Considered a Form of Psychosurgery? Ethical and Legal Considerations, Science and Engineering Ethics (2017) 24(4): 1119-1142.
Is There a Right Not to Know? Nature Review Clinical Oncology, (2017) 14: 259-260.
Caretaking Through Art: A Sibling Story, Journal of Medical Humanities (2017) 38(1): 77-78.
Seeing Illness in Art and Medicine: A Patient and Printmaker Collaboration, Medical Humanities (2016) 42(3): 155-159.
Moral Evaluations of Genetic Technologies: The Need for Catholic Social Doctrine, National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly (2015) 15(3): 477-489.
A Christian Ontology of Genetic Disease and Disorder, Journal of Disability and Religion (2015) 19(2): 119-145.
In Defense of Paul Tillich: Toward a Liberal Protestant Bioethics, (2014) Christian Bioethics 20(2): 260-271.
On Poor Religious Coping: Spiritually Assessing Christianity’s Great Theologians, (2013) Christian Bioethics 19(3): 299-312.
Living into the Imagined Body: How the Diagnostic Image Confronts the Lived Body, Medical Humanities (2013) 39(1): 53-58.
PUBLIC SCHOLARSHIP
Stahl, D. and Curry L. (2022) What Disability Theology Can Teach Science and the Church Part I and Part II. Biologos.
Stahl, D. (2021). “Disability Theology and the Common Good,” Theo-Humanism Project at Georgetown University.
Stahl, D. (2021). “Cripping the Kingdom,” Political Theology.
Navin, M, Wasserman J, Stahl D, Tomlinson T. (2021). “Who Should Get to Choose Their Surrogates?” British Medical Journal Blog.
Stahl, D. (2020). “Fixing the Jericho Road: How Covid-19 Reveals the Deep Disparities in American Healthcare,” InStead Blog.
Stahl, D. (2020). “Reproductive Choice and Disability Stigma,” Immanent Frame.
Stahl, D., Stramondo J., Garland-Thomson G., Belt R. (2020). “Ensuring Health Equity for Persons with Disabilities: The Context and Ethics of Health Rationing During COVID-19” Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study Harvard University. Webinar. April.
Bibler T, Stahl D, McDaniel L. (2019) “When Patients and Families Express Hope for a Miracle: Bibler and Stahl - Episode 12.” No Easy Answers in Bioethics. February.
Stahl D, Tomlinson T, McDaniel L. (2018) “Clinical and Legal Perspectives on Brain Death: Stahl and Tomlinson” – Episode 11, No Easy Answers in Bioethics Podcast. January.
Stahl D, Vercler C, McDaniel L. (2018) “Plastic Surgeons on Snapchat: Stahl and Vercler” Episode 10, No Easy Answers in Bioethics Podcast. November.
Stahl, D. (2018). “The Healing Power of Art,” U.S. Catholic Magazine. September 4, 2018.
Stahl, D. (2018). “The MRI as Iconography” Conference on Medicine and Religion Blog. October 3, 2018.
BOOK CHAPTERS
Stahl, D. (2022). “Euthanasia, Physician Assisted Suicide and Contemporary Christianity,” in Handbook of Contemporary Christianity in the United States (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield), 409-420.
Stahl, D. (2021). “The Need for Paul Tillich’s Method in Theological Bioethics,” in Why Tillich Why Now? (Macon: Mercer University Press), 220-230.
Gaventa, W., Stahl, D., and McDonald K. (2020). “Public Health Ethics and Disability: Centering Disability Justice” in Public Health Perspectives on Disability (New York: Springer), 129-148.
Stahl, D. (2018). “Introduction,” in Imaging and Imagining Illness: Becoming Whole in a Broken Body. Ed. D. Stahl, Eugene OR, Cascade Books, xxi-xxvii.
Stahl, D. (2018). “Reflections,” in Imaging and Imagining Illness: Becoming Whole in a Broken Body. Ed. D. Stahl, Eugene OR, Cascade Books, 107-119.
Stahl, D. (2018). “Living into My Image” in Imaging and Imagining Illness: Becoming Whole in a Broken Body, 2018. Ed. D. Stahl, Eugene OR, Cascade Books, 1-21.
Stahl, D. (2018). “Tillich and Transhumanism,” in The Body and Ultimate Concern: Reflections on an Embodied Theology of Paul Tillich. Ed. Pryor A. and Stahl D. Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, 185-212.