Contributors
- Contributors
Adrienne Asch is the newly-appointed Edward and Robin Milstein Professor of Bioethics of Yeshiva University-Wurzweiler School of Social Work. In addition to her scholarship on issues of reproduction, genetics, and quality of life, she has been involved in clinical ethics consultation and the public policy process at the state and federal levels. She is a past board member of the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities and a fellow of The Hastings Center.
Françoise Baylis, Canada Research Chair in Bioethics and Philosophy, teaches at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Canada, where she holds a cross-appointment in the departments of bioethics and philosophy. She has coedited Health Care Ethics in Canada (Thomson Nelson, 2004) and numerous articles on ethics and human stem cell research.
Katrina A. Bramstedt is a faculty bioethicist at The Cleveland Clinic Foundation in Cleveland, Ohio. Her research interests include ethical issues in organ transplantation, artificial organs, and implantable medical devices.
Winston Chiong is a medical student at the University of California, San Francisco. He received his PhD in philosophy from New York University. His scholarly interests include neurology, ethical issues in medical education and clinical research, and the limits of partiality within special relationships, such as family and professional relationships.
Rebecca Dresser is a professor in the law and medical schools of Washington University in St. Louis, where she teaches courses on policy issues in medicine and research. Since 2002, she has been a member of the President’s Council on Bioethics.
Josephine Johnston is associate for ethics, law, and society at The Hastings Center, where her research includes the management of conflicts of interest in biomedicine.
Robert Macauley is interim medical director of clinical ethics at Fletcher Allen Health Care in Burlington, Vermont, as well as clinical assistant professor of pediatrics at the University of Vermont College of Medicine.
Leemon McHenry lectures in philosophy at California State University, Northridge. His most recent books are American Philosophers before 1950 and American Philosophers, 1950–2000, both edited with P. Dematteis (Gale, 2003). His research interests include philosophy of science, bioethics, and process philosophy.
Bernard G. Prusak is a Gallen Fellow in the Humanities at Villanova University. He holds a PhD in philosophy from Boston University, where he also taught for several years. His research is focused on the intersections of philosophical anthropology and bioethics.
Jason Scott Robert is assistant professor in the School of Life Sciences at Arizona State University, affiliated with the Center for Biology and Society and the Consortium for Science, Policy, and Outcomes. He is the author of Embryology, Epigenesis, and Evolution: Taking Development Seriously (Cambridge, 2004), and of many articles in bioethics and the philosophy of biology.
Marc Siegel is an internist and associate professor of medicine at NYU School of Medicine. His most recent book is False Alarm: The Truth about the Epidemic of Fear (Wiley, 2005). [End Page 48]
