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  • Contributors

Brian D. Earp, M.Sc., M.Phil., is a Research Associate at the Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics at the University of Oxford; a Resident Visiting Scholar at The Hastings Center Bioethics Research Institute in Garrison, New York; and an incoming PhD candidate in philosophy and psychology at Yale University. Brian holds degrees from Yale, Oxford, and Cambridge universities. He serves on the board of editorial consultants for Public Affairs Quarterly and is also an Associate Editor at the Journal of Medical Ethics.

Richard A. Shweder, PhD, is a cultural anthropologist and the Harold Higgins Swift Distinguished Service Professor of Human Development in the Department of Comparative Human Development at the University of Chicago. He has served as President of the Society for Psychological Anthropology and is author or editor of many books and essays in the areas of cultural psychology, psychological anthropology and comparative ethics, including Thinking Through Cultures, Why Do Men Barbecue?, and Engaging Cultural Differences.

Robert A. Darby, PhD, is an independent scholar with an interest in many aspects of social, cultural and medical history, as well as contemporary bioethical and human rights issues. He is the author of A Surgical Temptation: The Demonization of the Foreskin and the Rise of Circumcision in Britain and numerous journal articles on historical, medical and ethical aspects of male and female genital cutting. He lives in Canberra, Australia.

Jamie Lindemann Nelson, PhD, is Professor of Philosophy and Faculty Associate, Center for Ethics and Humanities in the Life Sciences, at Michigan State University. She has just concluded a term as Co-coordinator of the International Network of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics, and will shortly become a co-editor of FAB’s journal, IJFAB. She is a member of the Ethics Committee of the United Network for Organ Sharing and is a Hastings Center Fellow.

Daniel Goldberg, JD, PhD, is trained as an attorney, a historian, and a public health ethicist. His work focuses on the law, history, and ethics of public and population health, with a particular emphasis on noncommunicable disease, the social determinants of health, health inequalities, and health stigma.

Ruiping Fan, BM, PHD, is a professor of philosophy in the Department of Public Policy at City University of Hong Kong. His research focuses on Confucian bioethics, Chinese and comparative philosophy, and public policy and ethics. His most recent publication is an edited volume titled Family-oriented Informed Consent: East Asian and American Perspectives. [End Page vi]

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