No bioethics of the body can neglect the modern liberal nation-state, which claims sovereignty over its citizens’ bodies, a claim resting implicitly on a dualistic separation of soul from body. Thus in liberal states citizens enjoy freedom of worship, purportedly a private good pertaining to the soul, but insofar as religious action affects citizens’ bodies in the public space, the state as sovereign may regulate such acts. This cleavage between private and public space influences physician practice in turn. Smoking, for example, is placed in the public realm and therefore amenable to state regulation and medical intervention intended to eliminate the behavior, but risky sexual behavior, despite its similarly serious potential impacts on patients’ health, is considered a private matter, and thus physicians limit themselves to mitigating its consequences. Although liberalism has come to dominate contemporary bioethics, it has always been in tension with human boa more traditional ethic in which physician and patient work together to promote health, a good that crosses the boundaries between soul and body, private and public. Yet recent years have seen challenges to liberal values such as free speech from both the “left” and the “right,” and this crisis provides an opportunity to imagine a bioethics that reintegrates what liberalism has put asunder. In this paper, I will argue that an integral Christian conception of ethics and politics can preserve what is genuinely good about liberalism while also overcoming its limitations and resisting the modern state’s claim to control over the body.