About the Authors
Buy Issue for $25 at JHUPGwen Adshead is a forensic psychiatrist and psychotherapist. She studied medical law and ethics at King's College and has a particular interest in how people develop a moral sense and in those who appear to have lost it. She is a past chair of the Royal College of Psychiatrists Ethics Committee, and is working on a book on ethical dilemmas in forensic psychiatry for Oxford University Press. She can be contacted via e-mail at gwen.adshead@wlmht.nhs.uk.
Bengt Brülde is an Assistant Professor of Practical Philosophy at Göteborg University, Sweden, and Assistant Professor of Philosophy at University West, Sweden. The areas of research on which Brülde has focused are (apart from the philosophy of psychiatry) quality of life, happiness, the concepts of health and disorder, and bioethics. He can be contacted via e-mail at bengt.brylde@phil.gu.se.
Will Cartwright is an Englishman who began his studies in law before a growing interest in philosophical questions about law led him to migrate into philosophical studies at University College, London and New College, Oxford. He has written on legal and moral philosophy, philosophical psychology, medical ethics, and the theory of responsibility. His current research involves exploring some of the philosophical questions raised by the criminal law. He can be contacted via e-mail at cartww@essex.ac.uk.
Richard Gipps has a Ph.D. on the metapsychology of schizophrenia from the University of Warwick. He has taught philosophy at the Universities of Oxford and Warwick and King's College London, has published on the nature of delusion, and is currently pursuing a doctoral training in clinical psychology at Canterbury Christ Church University, U.K. He can be reached via e-mail at r.gipps@inpponline.org.
Filip Radovic received his Ph.D. in Philosophy at Lund University, Sweden. His research interests include epistemology, philosophy of mind, and issues on the borderline between philosophy and psychiatry. He can be contacted via e-mail at filip@filosofi.gu.se.
Benedict Smith received his Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Warwick in 2004. He has lectured Philosophy at the University of Warwick, and is currently lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Durham. His research interests include the nature of moral reasons and the relation between experience and moral knowledge. He can be reached via e-mail at b.w.smith@durham.ac.uk.
Jerome C. Wakefield, D.S.W., Ph.D., is University Professor and Professor of Social Work at New York University. His doctorates in Philosophy and Social Welfare are from UC Berkeley, and he has held faculty positions at University of Chicago, Columbia University, and Rutgers University. He writes on the conceptual foundations of mental health practice. He can be reached via e-mail at jw111@nyu.edu.
