Bobier, Christopher
Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Biography
Dr. Bobier is an Associate Professor and Co-Director of the longitudinal M1/M2 Medicine and Society course. An ethicist and health policy expert by training, he earned his MA and PhD from the University of California, Irvine, and his MHHSA from Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota. His research interests include ethics and regulation of xenotransplantation, the use of animals in medical research and training, and the role of false hope in medicine.
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Publications & Presentations
Christopher Bobier (2017). Hope and Practical Deliberation Analysis.
Christopher Bobier (2018). Why hope is not a moral virtue: Aquinas's insight Ratio.
Christopher Bobier (2019). Varieties of the Cruelty-Based Objection to Factory Farming Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics.
Christopher Bobier (2019). Should Moral Vegetarians Avoid Eating Vegetables? Food Ethics.
Christopher Bobier (2020). Aquinas on the Emotion of Hope: A Psychological or Theological Treatment? American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly.
Christopher Bobier (2021). The Hopefull Leviathan: Hope, Deliberation and the Commonwealth Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie.
Christopher Bobier, Adam Omelianchuk (2022). Dilemma for appeals to the moral significance of birth Journal of Medical Ethics.
Bobier CA (2020). Orphans and the relational significance of birth: a response to Singh. Journal of medical ethics.
Bobier CA (2021). A critical examination of the false hope harms argument. Bioethics.
Bobier CA, Omelianchuk A (2022). Why appeals to the moral significance of birth are saddled with a dilemma. Journal of medical ethics.
Bobier C, Allen B (2022). The virtue of compassion in compassionate conservation. Conservation biology : the journal of the Society for Conservation Biology.
Bobier CA, Allen BL (2022). Compassionate Conservation is indistinguishable from traditional forms of conservation in practice. Frontiers in psychology.
Bobier C, Rodger D, Hurst DJ, Omelianchuk A (2023). In defense of xenotransplantation research: Because of, not in spite of, animal welfare concerns. Xenotransplantation.
Bobier C (2023). The Impairment Argument and Future-Like-Ours: A Problematic Dependence. Journal of bioethical inquiry.
Allen BL, Bobier C, Dawson S, Fleming PJS, Hampton J, Jachowski D, Kerley GIH, Linnell JDC, Marnewick K, Minnie L, Muthersbaugh M, O'Riain MJ, Parker D, Proulx G, Somers MJ, Titus K (2023). Why humans kill animals and why we cannot avoid it. The Science of the total environment.
Bobier C, Rodger D (2023). Xenotransplantation Clinical Trials and Equitable Patient Selection. Cambridge quarterly of healthcare ethics : CQ : the international journal of healthcare ethics committees.
Bobier C, Rodger D, Hurst DJ (2024). Xenotransplantation and lifelong monitoring. American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons.
Bobier C (2023). Virtue Ethics and the Spheres of Morality Framework. The American journal of bioethics : AJOB.
Bobier C, Reinhardt N, Pawlowski K (2024). Animal rights, animal research, and the need to reimagine science. The New bioethics : a multidisciplinary journal of biotechnology and the body.
Bobier C, Hurst DJ, Rodger D, Omelianchuk A (2024). Xenograft recipients and the right to withdraw from a clinical trial. Bioethics.
Hurst DJ, Bobier C (2024). Does Xenotransplantation Offer a Large Benefit for Human Patients? The Thoracic and cardiovascular surgeon.
Rodger D, Hurst DJ, Bobier CA, Symons X (2024). Genetic disenhancement and xenotransplantation: diminishing pigs' capacity to experience suffering through genetic engineering. Journal of medical ethics.
Hurst DJ, Padilla L, Merlocco A, Rodger D, Bobier C, Gray WH, Sorabella R, Cooper DKC, Pierson RN (2024). Pediatric Cardiac Xenotransplantation: Recommendations for the Ethical Design of Clinical Trials. Transplantation.
Bobier C (2024). Equitable Participant Selection Concerns for First-In-Human Whole-Eye Transplantation. The American journal of bioethics : AJOB.
Bobier C, Hurst DJ, Rodger D (2024). Xenotransplantation under the Food and Drug Administration's Expanded Access pathway. American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons.
Bobier CA (2024). A Rule-Based Solution to Opaque Medical Billing in the U.S. The Journal of law, medicine & ethics : a journal of the American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics.
Rodger D, Mack J, Bobier C, Padilla L, Hurst DJ (2024). Xenotransplantation clinical trials: Should patients with diminished capacity be permitted to enroll? Xenotransplantation.
Christopher Bobier (2021). What Would the Virtuous Person Eat? The Case for Virtuous Omnivorism Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics.
Christopher Bobier (2022). New Omnivorism: a Novel Approach to Food and Animal Ethics Food Ethics.
Christopher Bobier (2022). Extending the Impairment Argument to Sentient Non-Human Animals Between the Species: A Journal for the Study of Philosophy and Animals.
Christopher Bobier (2022). Is a vegetarian diet morally safe? Zeitschrift für Ethik und Moralphilosophie.
C Bobier (2022). A Practical Problem for Proponents of Heterologous Embryo Transfer The National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly.
Christopher Bobier (2017). Deflating Moods Southwest Philosophy Review.
Christopher Bobier (2018). Why hope is not a moral virtue: Aquinas's insight Ratio.
Christopher Bobier (2019). Varieties of the Cruelty-Based Objection to Factory Farming Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics.
Christopher Bobier (2019). Should Moral Vegetarians Avoid Eating Vegetables? Food Ethics.
Christopher Bobier (2020). Aquinas on the Emotion of Hope: A Psychological or Theological Treatment? American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly.
Christopher Bobier (2021). The Hopefull Leviathan: Hope, Deliberation and the Commonwealth Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie.
Christopher Bobier, Adam Omelianchuk (2022). Dilemma for appeals to the moral significance of birth Journal of Medical Ethics.
Bobier CA (2020). Orphans and the relational significance of birth: a response to Singh. Journal of medical ethics.
Bobier CA (2021). A critical examination of the false hope harms argument. Bioethics.
Bobier CA, Omelianchuk A (2022). Why appeals to the moral significance of birth are saddled with a dilemma. Journal of medical ethics.
Bobier C, Allen B (2022). The virtue of compassion in compassionate conservation. Conservation biology : the journal of the Society for Conservation Biology.
Bobier CA, Allen BL (2022). Compassionate Conservation is indistinguishable from traditional forms of conservation in practice. Frontiers in psychology.
Bobier C, Rodger D, Hurst DJ, Omelianchuk A (2023). In defense of xenotransplantation research: Because of, not in spite of, animal welfare concerns. Xenotransplantation.
Bobier C (2023). The Impairment Argument and Future-Like-Ours: A Problematic Dependence. Journal of bioethical inquiry.
Allen BL, Bobier C, Dawson S, Fleming PJS, Hampton J, Jachowski D, Kerley GIH, Linnell JDC, Marnewick K, Minnie L, Muthersbaugh M, O'Riain MJ, Parker D, Proulx G, Somers MJ, Titus K (2023). Why humans kill animals and why we cannot avoid it. The Science of the total environment.
Bobier C, Rodger D (2023). Xenotransplantation Clinical Trials and Equitable Patient Selection. Cambridge quarterly of healthcare ethics : CQ : the international journal of healthcare ethics committees.
Bobier C, Rodger D, Hurst DJ (2024). Xenotransplantation and lifelong monitoring. American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons.
Bobier C (2023). Virtue Ethics and the Spheres of Morality Framework. The American journal of bioethics : AJOB.
Bobier C, Reinhardt N, Pawlowski K (2024). Animal rights, animal research, and the need to reimagine science. The New bioethics : a multidisciplinary journal of biotechnology and the body.
Bobier C, Hurst DJ, Rodger D, Omelianchuk A (2024). Xenograft recipients and the right to withdraw from a clinical trial. Bioethics.
Hurst DJ, Bobier C (2024). Does Xenotransplantation Offer a Large Benefit for Human Patients? The Thoracic and cardiovascular surgeon.
Rodger D, Hurst DJ, Bobier CA, Symons X (2024). Genetic disenhancement and xenotransplantation: diminishing pigs' capacity to experience suffering through genetic engineering. Journal of medical ethics.
Hurst DJ, Padilla L, Merlocco A, Rodger D, Bobier C, Gray WH, Sorabella R, Cooper DKC, Pierson RN (2024). Pediatric Cardiac Xenotransplantation: Recommendations for the Ethical Design of Clinical Trials. Transplantation.
Bobier C (2024). Equitable Participant Selection Concerns for First-In-Human Whole-Eye Transplantation. The American journal of bioethics : AJOB.
Bobier C, Hurst DJ, Rodger D (2024). Xenotransplantation under the Food and Drug Administration's Expanded Access pathway. American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons.
Bobier CA (2024). A Rule-Based Solution to Opaque Medical Billing in the U.S. The Journal of law, medicine & ethics : a journal of the American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics.
Rodger D, Mack J, Bobier C, Padilla L, Hurst DJ (2024). Xenotransplantation clinical trials: Should patients with diminished capacity be permitted to enroll? Xenotransplantation.
Christopher Bobier (2021). What Would the Virtuous Person Eat? The Case for Virtuous Omnivorism Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics.
Christopher Bobier (2022). New Omnivorism: a Novel Approach to Food and Animal Ethics Food Ethics.
Christopher Bobier (2022). Extending the Impairment Argument to Sentient Non-Human Animals Between the Species: A Journal for the Study of Philosophy and Animals.
Christopher Bobier (2022). Is a vegetarian diet morally safe? Zeitschrift für Ethik und Moralphilosophie.
C Bobier (2022). A Practical Problem for Proponents of Heterologous Embryo Transfer The National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly.
Christopher Bobier (2017). Deflating Moods Southwest Philosophy Review.
Credentials, Certifications & Awards
Graduate Student Research and Travel Award
Teaching Excellence and Service to the Academic Community Award
Instructional Development Award
Teaching Excellence and Service to the Academic Community Award
Instructional Development Award
Education
Ph.D., University of California, Irvine, Irvine
B.A., California State University, Fullerton, Fullerton
M.H.H.S.A., Saint Mary's University of Minnesota, WInona
M.A., University of California, Irvine, Irvine
B.A., California State University, Fullerton, Fullerton
M.H.H.S.A., Saint Mary's University of Minnesota, WInona
M.A., University of California, Irvine, Irvine
Membership in Professional Organizations
American Society for Bioethics and Humanities