Contributors
- Contributors
Karen Anijar, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Curriculum and Cultural Studies at Arizona State University. She is the author of Teaching towards the Twenty-fourth Century: The Social Curriculum of Star Trek (Falmer Press: Taylor & Francis, 2000) and coeditor (with John Weaver and Toby Daspit) of Science Fiction Curriculum, Cyborg Teachers, and Youth Cultures (Peter Lang Press, forthcoming). She has published several chapters and articles on whiteness, including a chapter in White-Reign (St. Martin's Press, 2000).
Armand H. Matheny Antommaria, M.D., Ph.D., has earned a Ph.D. from the Divinity School at the University of Chicago and is completing his pediatric residency at the University of Utah.
Swathi Arekapudi, B.A., is a 2002–2003 Fellow at the Institute for Ethics at the American Medical Association. Her senior honors thesis, entitled "Physician-Assisted Suicide: Questioning the Courts," analyzed recent Supreme Court rulings on the subject. She has worked in two research laboratories and was a field health technician for the Harvard Heart Health Study.
Robert Baker, Ph.D., is Professor and Chair of the Department of Philosophy at Union College, Visiting Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania Center for Bioethics, and Chair of the Affinity Group for the History of Medical Ethics of the American Society of Bioethics and Humanities. His most recent book (coedited with Arthur Caplan, Linda Emanuel, and Stephen Latham) is The American Medical Ethics Revolution: How the AMA's Code of Ethics Has Transformed Physicians' Relationships to Patients, Professionals and Society (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999).
Frances R. Batzer, M.D., is a Clinical Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Thomas Jefferson University School of Medicine and an Attending Gynecologist at Pennsylvania Hospital. She is Board Certified in Obstetrics and Gynecology and Reproductive Endocrinology and is a member of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine, American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology, American College of Surgeons, and the AIUM. She has published and coauthored numerous articles, abstracts, and medical textbooks and has lectured nationally and internationally on a variety of menopause and infertility issues. She is also the Director, Philadelphia Menopause Group and Clinton Endocrine Laboratory.
David Benatar, Ph.D., teaches in the Philosophy Department at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. His research interests are in moral philosophy and related areas.
Michael Benatar, M.D., Ph.D., is a neurologist in the Neurology Department at Harvard University. He is the author of Analytic Neurology: Examining the Evidence for Clinical Practice (Butterworth-Heinemann, 2002).
Michael L. Bennish, M.D., is Director of the Africa Centre for Health and Population Research in Mtubatuba South Africa and Professor of Pediatrics and Infectious Diseases at Tufts-New England Medical Center and Visiting Professor in the Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine at the University of Oxford. His training is in pediatric infectious diseases, and he has worked for 20 years in the area of international health, including six years at the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Richard A. Cash, M.D., M.P.H., is the Director of the Program on Ethical Issues in International Health Research at the Harvard School of Public Health. He has been working in international health for over 35 years, particularly in the areas of infectious disease research, the development of research and institutional capacity, and research ethics. In the past few years he and his colleagues have conducted numerous workshops on research ethics in developed and developing countries.
Tod Chambers, Ph.D., is Assistant Professor of Medical Ethics and Humanities and of Medicine at Northwestern University Medical School. His book The Fiction of Bioethics (Routledge, 1999), examines how the case, the primary datum of medical ethics, is constructed to support particular philosophical perspectives.
Rio Cruz, Ph.D., is Founder-Executive Co-Director of the International Coalition for Genital Integrity, an alliance of 21 organizations dedicated to protecting the normal anatomy of males and females.
Dena S. Davis, J.D., Ph.D., is Professor of Law at Cleveland Marshall College of Law. She has been a Visiting Scholar at the Hastings Center and the National Human Genome Research Institute and a SmithKline Beecham Research Fellow at the Center for the Study of Law, Science, and...
