Contributors
- Contributors
Margaret P. Battin is professor of philosophy and adjunct professor of internal medicine in the Division of Medical Ethics at the University of Utah. She is a graduate of Bryn Mawr College and holds an M.F.A. in fiction writing and a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of California, Irvine. She has authored, edited, or coedited twelve books, among them a study of philosophical issues in suicide; a scholarly edition of John Donne’s Biathanatos; a collection on age rationing of medical care; Puzzles About Art, a volume of case puzzles in aesthetics; a text on professional ethics; and Ethics in the Sanctuary, a study of ethical issues in organized religion. A collection of her essays on end-of-life issues written over the last fifteen years is entitled The Least Worst Death. Having been engaged in research on active euthanasia and assisted suicide in the Netherlands, she has also recently published Ethical Issues in Suicide, trade titled The Death Debate, as well as several coedited collections, including Drug Use in Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide and Physician-Assisted Suicide: Expanding the Debate. Just published in 1999 is Praying for a Cure, a jointly authored volume on the ethics of religious refusal of medical treatment. She is currently at work on a book on world population growth and reproductive rights as well as a sourcebook on ethical issues in suicide.
Heidi Boerstler is professor of health administration, law, and ethics, College of Business, University of Colorado at Denver, and professor of health law, College of Law, University of Colorado at Boulder.
Stephan L. Burton is an intramural research fellow in the Department of Clinical Bioethics at the National Institutes of Health. He received his Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, in 1992. He has taught at Indiana University, Bloomington; the University of Chicago; and Johns Hopkins University.
Felicia Cohn is a senior scientist with the Center to Improve Care of the Dying and director of the Program in Bioethics for the Department of Health Care Sciences at the George Washington University Medical Center. Cohn’s research includes examination [End Page 443] of end-of-life care issues, prison health care, the clinician-patient relationship, ethics education in medicine, and alternative ethical theories. In addition to her research, she is involved in ethics consultation and hospital policy development, curriculum revision, and teaching in the health-related professions.
Ezekiel J. Emanuel is the chair of the Department of Clinical Bioethics at the Warren G. Magnuson Clinical Center at the National Institutes of Health. He is also an oncologist. He received his M.Sc. from Oxford University, his M.D. from Harvard Medical School, and his Ph.D. in political philosophy from Harvard University. He has published widely on advance care directives and end-of-life care issues, euthanasia, the ethics of managed care, and the physician-patient relationship. Emanuel served on the ethics section of President Clinton’s Health Care Task Force and the National Bioethics Advisory Commission.
Janet Heald Forlini is the legislation and policy analyst at the Center to Improve Care of the Dying at the George Washington University Medical Center. She works on issues surrounding Medicare reform, improved public policy, and legislative inclusion of issues pertinent to those facing the end of life.
David M. Frankford is a professor of law at the Rutgers University School of Law in Camden and a professor at Rutgers’ Institute for Health, Health Care Policy, and Aging Research in New Brunswick; faculty director of Rutgers’ Center for State Health Policy; and a member of Rutgers’ Graduate Department of Public Policy and Administration in Camden. He is also the book review editor of the Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law. His primary current research interest concerns the reconstitution of professionalism as the normative integration of professions and community. In prior work, he has focused on the interactions between health services research, health care politics and policy, and the institutions of professions and professionalism.
Edward J. Gac is an associate professor of business law and taxation at the University of Colorado at Boulder College of Business. In addition, he has had visiting appointments at the University...
