The Authors/Les auteurs
Carolyn Ells is an Assistant Professor of Medicine and Member of the Biomedical Ethics Unit at McGill University, and Clinical Ethicist at the Sir Mortimer B. Davis Jewish General Hospital where she is the chair of the Research Ethics Committee. As a member of Groupe FEE, she created on-line, bilingual tutorials in research ethics for Quebec's Ministère de la Santé et des Services sociaux. She is a founding member of the McGill Qualitative Healthcare Research Group.
carolyn.ells@mcgill.ca
Steve Fuller is Professor of Sociology at the University of Warwick. He is the author of eleven books relating to the research program of "social epistemology." His latest books include The Intellectual (Icon, 2005), The Philosophy of Science and Technology Studies (Routledge, 2006), and The New Sociological Imagination (Sage, 2006). He is currently working a comparative sociology of academic and intellectual life, and a general history of epistemology.
s.w.fuller@warwick.ac.uk
Shawna Gutfreund has completed her Masters degree in philosophy with a specialization in biomedical ethics at McGill University, Montreal Canada. Her thesis, Doing Justice Justice: Distinguishing Social Justice from Distributive Justice and the Implications for Bioethics, explores the meaning and application of social justice for bioethics. In 2002, Ms Gutfreund received a research bioethics studentship from Associated Medical Services Inc., which resulted in a presentation at the 2002 Atlantic Region Philosophical Association Conference.
gufru@hotmail.com
Prashan Ranasinghe is a Ph.D. candidate at the Centre of Criminology, University of Toronto. His doctoral dissertation examines the recent refashioning of vagrancy-type legislation and how this legal mechanism is relied on to (re)order public spaces and interactions within these spaces.
prashan.ranasinghe@rogers.com
Shelley Z. Reuter has taught at Queen's and Memorial Universities, and is currently an assistant professor of sociology at Concordia University in [End Page v] Montreal. She is the author of Narrating Social Order: Agoraphobia and the Politics of Classification (forthcoming, University of Toronto Press) and joint editor (with Katja Neves-Graca) of a forthcoming special issue of Genes and Society of the Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology. Her current research is on the history and politics of Tay-Sachs disease.
sreuter@alcor.concordia.ca
Mariana Valverde was trained in political philosophy but has worked mainly in the sociology of law for the past decade. Her main current research interest is the deployment of low-level administrative and lay knowledges of vice, sex, and race in various legal complexes. Her 1998 book, Diseases of the Will: Alcohol and the Dilemmas of Freedom (Cambridge) won the Law and Society Association's Herbert Jacobs biannual book prize, in 2000. Princeton University Press published her most recent book, Law's Dream of a Common Knowledge (2003). She is a Professor at the Centre of Criminology, University of Toronto, and is currently engaged in a socio-legal research project on urban/municipal law and bylaw enforcement.
m.valverde@utoronto.ca
