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Michael Barilan practices Internal Medicine and works as a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Medical Education, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University. Barilan’s research interests are in the social history of bioethical questions, moral psychology in education to medical professionalism and Jewish bioethics. He chaired the committee drafting the clinical guidelines and code of ethics for palliative medicine in Israel. He can be contacted via email at ymbarilan@gmail.com.
Hannah Bowden is involved in the three-year research project ‘Emotional Experience in Depression: A Philosophical Study,’ funded by the German Research Foundation and the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council. She has research interests in philosophy of psychiatry and phenomenology. Her role in the project includes writing a PhD thesis on the phenomenology of bipolar disorder. She can be reached via email at hannahmbowden@gmail.com.
Edward Erwin is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Miami. He is the author of The Rejection of Natural Science Approaches to Psychotherapy (VDM Publishing 2010); Behavior Therapy: Scientific, Philosophical and Moral Foundations (Cambridge University Press 2010 [1978]); Philosophy and Psychotherapy: Razing the Troubles of the Brain (Sage 1997); and A Final Accounting: Philosophical and Empirical Issues in Freudian Psychology (M.I.T. Press 1996); and is the editor of The Freud Encyclopedia: Theories, Therapy, and Culture (Routledge 2002). He can be contacted via email at eerwin@miami.edu.
Peter Fonagy is Freud Memorial Professor of Psychoanalysis and Head of the Research Department of Clinical, Educational and Health Psychology at University College London; Chief Executive of the Anna Freud Centre, London; and Consultant to the Child and Family Program at the Menninger Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Baylor College of Medicine. He is a Fellow of the British Academy, is a senior NIHR Research Fellow, and currently chairs the Research Board of the International Psychoanalytic Association. His work integrates empirical research with psychoanalytic theory, and his clinical interests center around borderline psychopathology, violence, and early attachment relationships. He can be contacted via email at p.fonagy@ucl.ac.uk.
Barbro Fröding (nee Björkman) is a Senior Researcher at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm, Sweden. She is also a Researcher at Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics and a Further Researcher at Oxford Centre for Neuroethics. Her background is in moral philosophy and applied ethics and her current research interests include virtue ethics, bioethics and the ethics of human enhancement. She can be contacted via email at barbro.froding@philosophy.ox.ac.uk. [End Page 255]
Simona Giordano is Reader of Bioethics at the University of Manchester. She has a doctoral degree in philosophy and she specialized in psychiatric ethics. She has published extensively on anorexia and other psychological conditions and is the author of Exercise and Eating Disorders: An Ethical and Legal Analysis (Routledge 2010) and Understanding Eating Disorders: Conceptual and Ethical Issues in the Treatment of Anorexia and Bulimia Nervosa (Oxford University Press 2005). She may be contacted via email at simona. giordano@manchester.ac.uk.
Michael Lacewing is Director of Research and Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at Heythrop College, London. He researches in philosophy of psychoanalysis and moral psychology, is co-editor (with Louise Braddock) of The Academic Face of Psychoanalysis (Routledge 2007), and has recent publications in Ratio and Philosophical Psychology. He can be contacted via email at m.lacewing@heythrop.ac.uk.
Dorothée Legrand is a CNRS researcher at the Center of Research for Applied Epistemology (CREA, Paris, France). In her current work, she investigates bodily self-consciousness by integrating philosophical and psychological resources. Among her recent publications: Legrand D. (2010) Subjective and physical dimensions of bodily self-consciousness, and their dis-integration in anorexia nervosa. Neuropsychologia, 48:726–37. She may be contacted via email at dorotheelegrand@gmail.com.
Daniel Munday is Associate Clinical Professor and Honorary Consultant in Palliative Medicine at Warwick Medical School. His research interests are in exploring effective service provision in community palliative care and patient experience of receiving care at the end of life. He can be contacted via email at D.Munday@warwick.ac.uk. [End Page 256]
