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  • Contributors

Joseph J. Fins, MD, MACP, is the E. William Davis, Jr., MD Professor of Medical Ethics and Chief of the Division of Medical Ethics at Weill Cornell Medical College where he also serves as Professor of Medicine. He is the immediate past-president of the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities. His forthcoming book, Rights Come to Mind: Brain Injury, Ethics and the Struggle for Consciousness will be published by Cambridge University Press.

Daniel P. Sulmasy, MD, PhD, is the Kilbride-Clinton Professor of Medicine and Ethics in the Department of Medicine and Divinity School at the University of Chicago, where he serves as Associate Director of the MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics and Director of the Program on Medicine and Religion. He is a member of the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues. His latest book is the second edition of Methods in Medical Ethics.

Rebecca Dresser, JD, is the Daniel Noyes Kirby Professor of Law and Professor of Ethics in Medicine at Washington University in St. Louis. Since 1983, she has taught medical and law students about legal and ethical issues in end-of-life care, biomedical research, genetics, assisted reproduction, and related topics. From 2002 to 2009, she was a member of the President’s Council on Bioethics.

Spencer Phillips Hey, PhD, is a postdoctoral fellow in Biomedical Ethics at McGill University and a member of the Studies in Translation, Ethics, and Medicine (STREAM) research group. He received his PhD in philosophy from the Rotman Institute of Philosophy at the University of Western Ontario.

Jonathan Kimmelman, PhD, is Associate Professor in Biomedical Ethics, Experimental Medicine, and Social Studies of Medicine at McGill University, and directs the Studies in Translation, Ethics, and Medicine (STREAM) research group.

Franklin G. Miller, PhD, is a member of the senior faculty in the Department in Bioethics, National Institutes of Health (NIH), and Special Expert, National Institute of Mental Health Intramural Research Program. His principal current research interest is examination of ethical issues in clinical research, including study design, informed consent, and the ways in which clinical research differs from medical care.

Alberto Giubilini, PhD, is a research fellow at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics (CAPPE) at Charles Sturt University in Canberra, Australia. He holds a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Milan. His areas of interest include bioethics, moral philosophy, and moral psychology. He has published on a variety of topics in bioethics and applied ethics, including abortion, euthanasia, ethics of the family, informed consent, and organ donation. [End Page vi]

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