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  • Contributors

Daniel Callahan is senior research scholar and president emeritus at The Hastings Center. His most recent book is Taming the Beloved Beast: How Medical Technology Costs Are Destroying Our Health Care System (Princeton, 2010).

Lydia S. Dugdale is an assistant professor of medicine at Yale School of Medicine, where she practices internal medicine and teaches. Her research interests include global health and ethics at the end of life.

Mark A. Hall is professor of law and public health at Wake Forest University and codirects its Master of Arts in Bioethics program.

Catherine Hickey is assistant professor of psychiatry at Memorial University of Newfoundland. Her interests are geriatric psychiatry, consultation-liaison psychiatry, and dynamic psychotherapy, with specific focus on the construct of free will and decision-making capacity.

Adrienne M. Martin is assistant professor of philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania and senior fellow at the Penn Center for Bioethics.

Paul T. Menzel is professor of philosophy at Pacific Lutheran University, the author of two books on philosophical issues in health economics, and coeditor (with Halley S. Faust) of the forthcoming volume, Prevention vs. Treatment (Oxford, 2011).

Ron Paterson is professor of health law and policy at the University of Auckland. He was New Zealand Health and Disability Commissioner from 2000 to 2010.

Diane M. Plantz is a pediatric emergency medicine physician at Children's Mercy Hospitals and Clinics in Kansas City, Missouri. She is currently pursuing a doctorate in anthropology at the University of Kansas and hopes to use the knowledge and skills she gains to improve interactions among patients, physicians, and health care institutions.

Stuart Rennie is research assistant professor in the Department of Social Medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, coprincipal investigator of an NIH/ Fogarty International Center-funded bioethics capacity-building project in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Madagascar, and editor of the Global Bioethics Blog.

Autumn Alcott Ridenour is a Ph.D. candidate in theological ethics at Boston College. She is writing her dissertation on a theology and ethics of death and aging. Before attending Boston College, she received her masters at Yale Divinity School and worked at Yale University's Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics.

Peter H. Schwartz is a faculty investigator at the Indiana University Center for Bioethics, assistant professor of medicine at Indiana University School of Medicine, and assistant professor of philosophy at Indiana University - Purdue University, Indianapolis (IUPUI). [End Page 48]

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