Contributors
- Contributors
David DeGrazia is professor and chair of the Department of Philosophy at George Washington University. His most recent book is Human Identity and Bioethics (Cambridge, 2005). Currently he is interested in topics connecting the themes of moral status, identity, genetics, and reproduction.
Ezekiel J. Emanuel chairs the Department of Bioethics at the Clinical Center for the National Institutes of Health. He is also a breast oncologist. He has recently edited Ethical Issues in International Biomedical Research: A Casebook (Oxford, 2007) with James Lavery, Christine Grady, and Elizabeth R. Wahl.
Ruth L. Fischbach is a professor of bioethics at Columbia University’s College of Physicians and Surgeons and the Mailman School of Public Health and the director of Columbia’s Center for Bioethics. She is presently completing a Web-based course on neuroethics and a book on the intersection where technology confronts bioethics.
Insoo Hyun teaches bioethics at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. He chairs the ethics and public policy committee for the International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR) and cochairs the ISSCR’s International Guidelines Task Force for the Clinical Translation of Stem Cells.
Hilde Lindemann is professor of philosophy at Michigan State University. Her most recent books include An Invitation to Feminist Ethics (McGraw-Hill, 2005) and Naturalized Bioethics (Cambridge, 2008, edited with Marian Verkerk and Margaret Urban Walker). She also edits Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy.
Paul T. Menzel is professor of philosophy at Pacific Lutheran University and the author of two books on philosophical issues in health economics.
Len M. Nichols directs the health policy program at the New America Foundation, a nonprofit, nonpartisan policy research institute.
Carl E. Schneider is the Chauncey Stillman Professor of Law and Professor of Internal Medicine at the University of Michigan. He clerked for two judicial craftsmen: Carl McGowan (of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit) and Potter Stewart (Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court).
Charity Scott is professor of law with a joint appointment in Georgia State University’s College of Law and J. Mack Robinson College of Business, Institute of Health Administration. She also directs the Center for Law, Health & Society at the College of Law and writes on health law, policy, and ethics.
Jeremy R. Simon is assistant professor of clinical medicine and scholar in residence at the Center for Bioethics, Columbia University, where he is on the faculty of the Emergency Medicine residency. His work focuses on philosophy of medicine and medical ethics.
Marian Verkerk teaches the ethics of care at the University Medical Center, Groningen. She also heads its department of medical ethics, health law, and medical humanities and directs its Center for the Ethics of Care. She is a member of the Dutch Health Council and of one of the review committees on euthanasia in the Netherlands.
Matthew K. Wynia directs the Institute for Ethics at the American Medical Association and is an internist and specialist in infectious diseases at the University of Chicago. His recent research interests include professionalism in medicine, ethics and public health, military medical ethics, ethics and health disparities, and the development of quality measures in domains of ethics. [End Page 52]
