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Massimiliano Aragona is a Medical Doctor, Doctor in Philosophy, Psychiatrist, Psychotherapist, and Professor of Philosophy of Psychopathology at the University of Rome La Sapienza, Faculty of Philosophy. He is the medical manager in psychiatry at the Day Hospital for Eating Disorders and Pathological Dependences, ASL RMD, Rome, Italy. Author of two books (Vella, G., and M. Aragona. 2000. Metodologia della diagnosi in psicopatologia. Categorie e dimensioni. Torino: Bollati Boringhieri; Aragona, M. 2006. Aspettando la rivoluzione. Il DSM-V e oltre: le nuove idee sulla diagnosi tra filosofia della scienza e psicopatologia. Roma: Editori Riuniti) and of articles on psychopathology, methodological issues in psychiatry, psychopharmacology and transcultural mental health. He can be contacted via e-mail at: massimiliano.aragona@uniroma1.it
Claudio E. M. Banzato is a Psychiatrist and Doctor of Philosophy. Secretary of the WPA Section on Classification, Diagnostic Assessment and Nomenclature from August 2002 to September 2008. Editor of the special issue of the journal Psychopathology—Philosophical and Methodological Foundations of Psychiatric Diagnosis (2005). He can be contacted via e-mail at: claudio@lexxa.com.br and cbanzato@fcm.unicamp.br
Craig Edwards is a postgraduate student in Philosophy, undertaking his PhD at the University of Western Australia. His research interests are in bioethics, ethics, and the philosophy of mind, with a particular interest in the ethical justifications for and limitations on involuntary psychiatric treatment. Before 2007, he worked as a lawyer at the Mental Health Law Centre (WA) providing broad representation for persons with mental illness. "Ethical decisions in the classification of mental conditions as mental illness" and "Changing functions, moral responsibility, and mental illness" are his first articles submitted for publication in the field of philosophy. He can be contacted via e-mail at: edwardsc@cyllene.uwa.edu.au
Eric Matthews is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy and Honorary Research Professor of Medical and Psychiatric Ethics in the University of Aberdeen, Scotland. He has a long-standing interest in the philosophy of psychiatry. Recent publications include Body-subjects and disordered minds: Treating the whole person in psychiatry, Oxford/New York, Oxford University Press, 2007 and 'Is autonomy relevant to psychiatric ethics?' In Autonomy and paternalism, ed. T. Nys, Y. Denier, and T. Vandevelde. Leuven/Paris/Dudley MA, 2007, pp. 129-146. He can be contacted via e-mail at: e.matthews@abdn.ac.uk
Julian Savulescu is qualified in medicine, bioethics, and analytic philosophy. He holds the Uehiro Chair in Practical Ethics and is Director of the Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics at Oxford, Director of the Oxford Centre for Neuroethics, and Director of the Program on the Ethics of the New Biosciences. He was also recently awarded a major Arts and Humanities Research Council grant on Cognitive Science and Religious Conflict. He is [End Page 109] engaged in research, education, and stimulating open discussion around the ethical issues arising in everyday life and has worked broadly in the ethics of science and medicine. His main research interests are the ethics of the new biosciences: cloning, stem cells, genetics, artificial reproduction, and neuroscience. He established and was Director of the Ethics of Genetics Unit at the Murdoch Children's Research Institute in Melbourne. He is co-editor of a book Human enhancement, which will be published by Oxford University Press in early 2009. He can be contacted via e-mail at: julian.savuescu@philosophy.ox.ac.uk
Floris Tomasini is a philosopher with a particular interest in continental philosophy, moral philosophy, and embodied identity. In the field of philosophy of psychiatry and psychology, he is particularly interested in existential phenomenology as an approach to understand mental health, illness, and well-being. He believes in an engaged philosophy that involves him in philosophical fieldwork with hospital in-patients. He can be contacted via e-mail at: FJTomasini@uclan.ac.uk
Jukka Varelius works as a researcher at the Department of Philosophy at the University of Turku, Finland. His research concentrates on questions of applied ethics. His publications include "Voluntary euthanasia, physician-assisted suicide and the goals of medicine" (Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 2006;31(2):1–18), "Execution by lethal injection, euthanasia, organ-donation and the proper goals of medicine" (Bioethics 2007;21(3):140...
