About the Authors

Thomas Fuchs is senior lecturer and consultant at the Psychiatric Department of the University of Heidelberg. He is author of The Mechanization of the Heart (Rochester, 2001) and has published mainly on phenomenological psychiatry.

Walter Glannon is Assistant Professor at the Centre for Applied Ethics, University of British Columbia, and Clinical Ethicist at the Children's and Women's Health Centre of British Columbia. He is the author of Genes and Future People: Philosophical Issues in Human Genetics (Westview, 2001), The Mental Basis of Responsibility (Ashgate, 2002), and Biomedical Ethics (Oxford, 2003).

Nick Haslam (Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1992) is a social and clinical psychologist interested in psychiatric classification. He is currently senior lecturer in psychology at the University of Melbourne, Australia, and until recently was associate professor of psychology at the New School for Social Research in New York City.

Mike W. Martin is Professor of Philosophy at Chapman University. His recent books include Meaningful Work: Rethinking Professional Ethics (Oxford, 2000) and Physical Therapy Ethics (with Donald Gabard, forthcoming, F.A. Davis). Currently he is completing a book whose working title is Healthy Morality and Moral Health: America's Therapeutic Trend in Ethics.

Kjell Modigh (Ph.D., Department of Pharmacology, University of Göteborg, 1974), previous assistant professor in pharmacology, psychiatrist, has been retired for 2 years. His research focuses mainly on neurotransmitter function, anxiety disorders, and neuropsychiatric disorders in adults.

Katherine Morris (D. Phil., Oxford 1983) is a philosopher interested in Descartes, Wittgenstein, phenomenology, and the philosophy of psychopathology. She is currently supernumerary fellow in philosophy at Mansfield College, Oxford University, where she has been teaching since 1986. Recent publications include Descartes' Dualism (Routledge, London, 1996) (with Gordon Baker) and "The phenomenology of body dysmorphic disorder," forthcoming in the first volume (Nature and Narrative) of the OUP International Perspectives in Psychiatry and Philosophy series, General editors, K. W. M. Fulford, et al. She is also writing a book on Sartre for the Blackwells Great Minds of Philosophy series.

Filip Radovic is a lecturer in philosophy at Lund University, Lund, Sweden. His research interests include semantics, philosophy of mind, and issues on the borderline between philosophy and psychiatry. Currently, he is finishing his doctoral thesis on the mind-body problem.

Susanna Radovic is a lecturer in philosophy at Goteborg University, Goteborg, Sweden. She is currently working on her doctoral thesis on the problem of introspection. Her research interests also include descriptive psychopathology and cognitive psychology.