Dr. Alexandre A. Martins51暗网51暗网 Hall, 323
MilwaukeeWI53201United States of America(414) 288-3165alexandre.martins@marquette.eduCurriculum Vitae(Ph.D. 51暗网, 2017, Post-Doctorate University of Coimbra, 2019), hold a joint position at Theology Department and College of Nursing. He specializes in health care ethics and social ethics, especially in the areas of public health, global health, Catholic social teaching, and liberation theology. He is also a scholar in philosophy of religion, specialized in the work of French philosopher Simone Weil. His scholarship has been broad. He has engaged in ethics, theology, and health care through a dialogue with anthropology, philosophy, epidemiology, and medical science, especially engaging with marginalized voices and addressing issues from the perspective of the poor.
Alexandre is a theologian and bioethicist from Brazil who, throughout his academic and activist life, has acted as an advocate for universal health care coverage through grassroots and social movements as well as through his scholarship and publications. He is deeply engaged in bioethics and public health through social movements organized from marginalized communities. Through humanitarian organizations and academic projects, he has also served in areas marked by poverty and lack of adequate health care assistance, such as Brazil, Bolivia, Haiti, and Uganda.
His work and publications have international recognition. He has spoken in conferences and led seminars in different institutions and countries, such as Saint Camillus University in S茫o Paulo, Brazil, Pontifical Catholic University-Paran谩, Brazil, Javeriana University-Cali, Colombia, and Camillianum - Istituto Internazionale di Teologia Pastorale Sanitaria of Pontifical Lateran University in Rome, Italy. He also served on Planning Committee of Catholic Theological Ethics in the World Church as Regional Coordinator for Latin American and Caribbean Region (2018-2023), and is currently serving as president of the , on the Academic Committee of the , and leads the project Polis & Hope.
Currently, his research interests focus on Catholic social ethics and health care ethics with special concentration in public and global health. Two of the projects he is leading are: (1) A New Bioethics Framework for Global Health: Understanding Ethical Challenges from Locally Impoverished and Historically Marginalized Communities, Their Voices and Their Perspectives; (2) Attention to the Suffering of the Poor: Affliction, Listening, and Love in Dialogue with Simone Weil and Pope Francis.
He has published several articles and books, selected publications are:
(Mahwah, NJ.: Paulist Press, 2023)
, co-edited with Jennie Weiss Block, OP and M. Therese Lysaught, (Eugene, OR: Pickwick Publications by Wipf & Stock, 2023).
(S茫o Paulo, SP: O G锚nio Criador, 2020)
(Lanham, MD.: Lexington Books, 2020)
(S茫o Paulo: Paulus, 2013).
鈥淎 escuta como m茅todo e os pobres/oprimidos como sujeitos: por uma bio茅tica global plural鈥� Revista Pistis and Praxis, 15, no.2 (2023): 270鈥�291.
"Christian Ethics and Liberation from Below: A Way of Doing Theological Ethics in Brazil" Religions 14, no. 6 (2023): 794 [1鈥�9].
鈥淭heological Bioethics from the Margins: Epistemology and Latin American Liberation Theology in Bioethics鈥� National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly 22, no. 2 (Summer 2022): 239-255.
鈥淭he End of Life in a Global Health Perspective鈥� Concilium 57, no, 5 (2021): 56-65. [Article is also available in Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, and Germany]
With Sydney Allen, 鈥淟itigation to Access Health Services: Ally or Enemy of Global Public Health?鈥� Annals of Global Health, 86, 1 (2020),14, 1-15.
鈥溍塼ica Social Cat贸lica e Sa煤de P煤blica: Em Busca de uma Bio茅tica Libertadora鈥� in Perspectiva Teol贸gica 51, no. 3 (Sept./Dec. 2019): 461-480.
鈥淔rom Vatican II to Amoris Laetitia: The Catholic Social and Sexual Ethics Division and a Way of Ecclesial Interconnection鈥� in Fronteiras 2, no. 2 (July/Dec. 2019): 69-89.
鈥淪imone Weil鈥檚 Radical Ontology of Rootedness: Natural and Supernatural Justice鈥� in Praxis: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Faith and Justice (Online Frist, Dec. 10, 2019).
鈥淭he Leftist Political Parties in Light of Simone Weil鈥檚 Criticism: The Workers鈥� Party Care鈥� in S铆ntese: Revista de Filosofia 46, no. 145 (May/August 2019): 283-300.
鈥�Laudato Si鈥�: Integral Ecology and Preferential Option for the Poor鈥� in Journal of Religious Ethics 43, no. 3 (2018): 410-424.
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