Contributors
- Contributors
Richard E. Ashcroft is Professor of Bioethics in the School of Law at Queen Mary, at the University of London. He has published widely on ethical issues in medical research and in public health. His current research is on bioethics and human rights and equality and difference in reproductive rights.
Angela Ballantyne has a background in genetics and bioethics and is currently a visiting scholar at Yale University's Interdisciplinary Bioethics Center. She has published in leading medical and bioethics journals on research ethics, abortion, vulnerability and trust, and the inclusion of women in research.
Belinda Bennett is Professor of Health and Medical Law and Director of the Centre for Health Governance, Law and Ethics at the Faculty of Law, University of Sydney. She is the lead chief investigator for the Gender Inequities in Health Research project funded by the Australian Research Council.
Véronique Bergeron LL.B., is an LL.M. (bioethics) candidate at McGill University, Montréal, Québec.
Diana Buccafurni is finishing a PhD in philosophy at the University of Utah. She is currently a lecturer at Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, Texas. Her dissertation is focused on a new normative model for genetic counseling. [End Page 188]
Laura M. Calkins holds degrees, including a doctorate in Modern Asian History, from Michigan State University, The London School of Economics, and the School of Oriental and African Studies in London. She held a National Science Foundation (NSF) Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Ethics and Value Studies and currently is Director of Women's Studies at Texas Tech University.
Sheryl de Lacey is Senior Lecturer in the School of Nursing & Midwifery at Flinders University in South Australia. She has a long involvement in clinical practice, policy-making, and bioethics as related to assisted reproductive technology in Australia. She researches psychosocial and ethical aspects of reproduction and women's health.
Donna Dickenson is Professor Emerita of Medical Ethics at the University of London and winner of the 2006 international Spinoza Lens award for her contributions to popular debate on ethics. She is the author of Property in the Body: Feminist Perspectives and Body Shopping: The Economy Fuelled by Flesh and Blood.
Debora Diniz is Professor of Bioethics at the University of Brasilia and has published several papers in English, Japanese, Portuguese, and Spanish journals. She is a member of the International Association of Bioethics board of directors and is co-editor of Developing World Bioethics. She has directed five documentary films.
Susan Dodds is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Wollongong. She has published a number of papers on feminist bioethics, health policy, and research ethics. She is currently working with Rachel Ankeny, Françoise Baylis, and Jocelyn Downie on "Big Picture Bioethics: Policy Making and Liberal Democracies."
Ruth Faden is Wagley Professor of Biomedical Ethics and Director of the Berman Institute of Bioethics at Johns Hopkins University. She is the author/editor of numerous books and articles on bioethics and health policy including Social Justice: The Moral Foundations of Public Health and Health Policy (with Madison Powers). [End Page 189]
Itziar Alkorta Idiakez is Associate Professor for Private Law at the University of the Basque Country, Spain. She has published many articles on genetics and the regulation of reproductive technologies. She has been a researcher in the European Commission's most recent three Research Framework Programmes and serves on the Basque Bioethics Commission.
Isabel Karpin is Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Law at the University of Sydney. She is currently involved in several major research projects examining legal responses to reproductive technology, disability and emergent genetic technologies, and the challenges these responses pose to the understanding of normality, individuality, and family.
Margaret Olivia Little is an associate professor in the Philosophy Department and a senior research scholar at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics, at Georgetown University. The co-founder of the Ob-Gyn Risk Research Group, she is currently a visiting scholar at the National Institutes of Health, focusing on issues around clinical research and pregnancy.
Anne Drapkin Lyerly is Associate Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Core Faculty in the Trent Center for Bioethics at Duke University. She receives research support from the Greenwall Foundation...
