Contributors
- Contributors
Tineke A. Abma is professor of client participation in elderly care at the Department of Medical Humanities and the EMGO+ Institute for Health and Care Research, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam. She has published extensively in the fields of program evaluation and qualitative methods, patient participation, and (nursing) ethics. Elderly care, chronic, care and psychiatry are her main practice fields.
Gwen Adshead is a forensic psychiatrist and forensic psychotherapist. She is trained as a group psychotherapist and also has a master's degree in medical law and ethics. Her research interests include moral reasoning in antisocial people; and the attachment histories of women who abuse their children. For the last ten years, she has worked as a consultant psychotherapist in a high-security psychiatric hospital in the UK.
Sara M. Bergstresser is adjunct assistant professor of American and international studies at Ramapo College, Mahwah, New Jersey. Her doctoral studies in medical anthropology examined mental health policy and social stigma in Italy. Her current work explores mental health and citizenship in North American and European contexts. She will begin the MS program in Bioethics at Columbia University in the Spring of 2011.
Robyn Bluhm is an assistant professor in the department of philosophy and religious studies and co-director of the Institute for Ethics and Public Affairs at Old Dominion University. Her research examines philosophical issues in medicine [End Page 250] and psychiatry, with a particular focus on the relationship between ethical and epistemological questions arising in medical research and clinical practice.
Lisa Cosgrove is a clinical psychologist and associate professor at the University of Massachusetts Boston. She is currently a Lab Fellow at the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, Harvard University. Dr. Cosgrove's work addresses the ethical dilemmas that arise in the biomedical field when there are financial ties between the pharmaceutical industry and academic institutions or professional organizations.
Linda Dauwerse is a researcher and PhD student in clinical ethics and client participation at the Department of Medical Humanities and the EMGO+ Institute for Health and Care Research, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam. She published on clinical ethics and described her patient journey in BMJ.
Ellen K. Feder is associate professor of philosophy at American University. She is the author of Family Bonds: Genealogies of Race and Gender (2007). Her current project, tentatively titled "Disturbing Bodies," provides a philosophical perspective on the medical management of intersex.
Carol Steinberg Gould is professor of philosophy at Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton. She has published widely in aesthetics, art theory, and ancient philosophy, and works also in the philosophy of psychiatry. Her current projects are "The Aesthetic Properties of Persons" and "On Personality and Character."
Jennifer L. Hansen received her Ph.D. in philosophy from Stony Brook University. She has taught at Gettysburg College and currently teaches at St. Lawrence University. Her areas of research include philosophy of psychiatry, continental feminist philosophy, and William James. She has published several anthologies on continental feminist thought with Ann Cahill and articles dealing with gender and depression, moral and political dilemmas involved with psychopharmacological enhancement, and conceptual issues in psychiatry.
Ginger A. Hoffman is assistant professor of philosophy at Loyola University New Orleans. She received her Ph.D. in philosophy from M.I.T, and her Ph.D. in neuroscience from Yale University. Her current research is in the areas of philosophy of psychiatry, neuroethics, normative ethics, and feminist theory. [End Page 251]
Elleke Landeweer is a researcher and doctoral student in empirical ethics at the Department of Medical Humanities and the EMGO+ Institute for Health and Care Research, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam. She is especially interested in ethical and philosophical issues in psychiatry and combines empirical data with moral theory to understand and foster psychiatric care.
Norah Martin is associate professor of philosophy and chair of the philosophy department at the University of Portland, where she also serves as associate dean for curriculum in the College of Arts and Sciences. Her recent work has involved applying feminist bioethics to issues in the areas of psychiatry, mental health, and crisis counseling.
Kathryn Pauly Morgan is professor of philosophy at the University of Toronto and is cross-appointed to the Women and Gender...
