Contributors
- Contributors
Roger Brownsword is a Professor of Law at King’s College London and has led the development of TELOS, an interdisciplinary research centre focussing on law, ethics, and technology at King’s College London. Well-known in British legal education circles, he has acted as a specialist adviser to the House of Lords Select Committee on Stem Cells and the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee, and was a member of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics from 2004–2010. Prof. Brownsword currently chairs the Ethics and Governance Council of UK Biobank.
Benjamin J. Capps is an Associate Professor at the Centre for Biomedical Ethics, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore where he is Director of Graduate Studies. Dr. Capps is a member of the Human Genome Organisation’s (HUGO) Committee on Ethics, Law and Society; the Pro-Tem National Oversight Committee for Human Animal Combinations in Stem Cell Research (Ministry of Health, Singapore); and the Neuroethics Working Group of the Bioethics Advisory Committee (Singapore).
Ruth Chadwick is Director of the ESRC Centre for Economic and Social Aspects of Genomics (CESAGEN) at Cardiff University, Wales, a Lancaster-Cardiff collaboration. Prof. Chadwick has coordinated a number of projects funded by the European Commission, is coeditor of Bioethics and has served as a member of several UK policy-making and advisory bodies.
John Elliott is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology, National University Singapore. Dr. Elliott’s research interests are in social, cognitive, and motor development plus various areas of cognitive psychology, especially short-term memory and evolutionary psychology. He serves as Academic Advisor to the UK Open University Psychology degree programme in Singapore; and is a Member on the following boards: the resource panel for the Singapore Police Force Psychology Unit, the National Medical Ethics Committee and National Bioethics Advisory Committee, and the Singapore Childrens’ Society Executive Committee.
Tamami Fukushi is a Fellow at the Centre for Research and Development Strategy, Japan Science and Technology Agency, Japan. Dr. Fukushi’s research interests include promoting neuroethics research to the public and policymakers as well as examining the ethical, legal, and social implications of brain-machine interface research.
Calvin W.L. Ho is an Associate Professor at the Centre for Biomedical Ethics, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore. Prior to joining CBmE, he was a research member of the Secretariat of the Bioethics Advisory Committee, Singapore, which was established by the government and tasked to address the ethical, legal and social issues arising from biomedical sciences research in Singapore. [End Page 407]
Soraj Hongladarom is Director of the Center for Ethics of Science and Technology at Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand where he teaches philosophy. Researching widely, his latest research interests are in the area of the ethical implications of nanotechnology. He has written widely on many subjects, including the roles that science and technology play in the culture of developing countries.
Michael J. McNamee is Professor of Applied Ethics in the Department of Philosophy, Humanities and Law in Healthcare, Swansea University, Wales. Prof. McNamee’s specialist subjects are applied ethics, medical ethics, research ethics, and sports medicine ethics. He was formerly President of the International Association for the Philosophy of Sport, and was the founding Chair of the British Philosophy of Sport Association, and continues to write and research widely in this area.
Ruud ter Meulen is Director of the Centre for Ethics in Medicine, University of Bristol, UK. Professor ter Meulen’s research interests, in addition to human enhancement, include justice in healthcare, the ethics of research, and care of older people. He has directed international research projects including some funded by the European Union.
Lisbeth Witthøfft Neilsen is Research Fellow on the Centre for Biomedical Ethics, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, working on the programme for capacity development in biomedical ethics, where she is helping with the conducting of workshops and development of training programmes in research integrity. Her research interests lie in analysis of meanings of nature and their role in ethical debates on biotechnology.
Bradley Partridge is an NHMRC Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Public Health investigating the use of pharmaceuticals by healthy...
