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David H. Smith
Director, Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics
Nelson Poynter Senior Scholar
Nelson Poynter Center
Indiana University/Bloomington
David Smith joined the faculty of the Department of Religious Studies at Indiana University Bloomington in 1967 and retired in 2003. He won teaching awards twice, one voted by students and the other awarded by faculty. In the early 1970s in one semester more than 700 students were enrolled in his two courses within one semester.
In 1983 Smith became Director of the Poynter Center for the Study of Ethics and American Institutions. During his twenty year tenure the Center received funding from the Lilly Endowment, the Exxon Educational Foundation, FIPSE, NIH, and NSF. Center projects focused on the teaching of ethics, care for the dying, research ethics, ethics and genetic testing, and corporate responsibility.
In 2003–4, immediately after his retirement from Indiana University, Smith served as Visiting Professor of Bioethics at Yale. From 2004 through 2006 he was Frederick Distinguished Visiting Professor of Ethics at Depauw University, where he helped start the Janet Prindle Institute of Ethics. In the 1980s and 1990s he wrote Health and Medicine in the Anglican Tradition and Entrusted: The Moral Responsibilities of Trustees; he was the first author of Early Warning:Cases and Ethical Guidance for Presymptomatic Testing in Genetic Diseases. More recently he is lead editor of A Christian Response to the New Genetics and Good Intentions: Moral Obstacles and Opportunities. His Partnership with the Dying, completed while at Yale in 2003–4, was published in 2005 by Rowman and Littlefield.
An active Episcopal layman, Smith and his wife, the former Marie-Louise Arnaud, have been married for 43 years; he is the father of three grown children and grandfather.