Contributors
- Contributors
George J. Agich, Ph.D., holds the F. J. O'Neill Chair in Clinical Bioethics and is Chairman of the Department of Bioethics with a Joint Appointment in the Transplant Center at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation. He is also Professor of Clinical Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Ohio State University, and Adjunct Professor, Department of Philosophy, Bowling Green State University.
Charles M. Anderson, Ph.D., is Professor of Rhetoric and Writing at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock and Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences.
Robert Baker, Ph.D., is Professor and Chair of the Department of Philosophy at Union College, Visiting Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania Center for Bioethics, and Chair of the Affinity Group for the History of Medical Ethics of the American Society of Bioethics and Humanities. His most recent book is The American Medical Ethics Revolution: How the AMA'S Code of Ethics Has Transformed Physicians' Relationships to Patients, Professionals and Society, which he co-edited with Arthur Caplan, Linda Emanuel, and Stephen Latham (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999).
Mark J. Bliton, Ph.D., currently serves as Chief of the Clinical Ethics Consultation Service at Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC). Bliton has written extensively on issues in clinical ethics, and is a contributor in Performance, Talk, Reflection: What Is Going On In Clinical Ethics Consultation? edited by Richard M. Zaner, (Kluwer, 1999) and the Handbook of Phenomenology and Medicine, edited by S. Kay Toombs (forthcoming).
Tod Chambers is Assistant Professor of Medical Ethics and Humanities and of Medicine at Northwestern University Medical School. His book, The Fiction of Bioethics (Routledge, 1999), examines how the case, which is the primary data of medical ethics, is constructed to support particular philosophical perspectives.
Rita Charon, M.D., Ph.D., is a general internist and literary scholar at Columbia University. She is the Director of the Program of Narrative Medicine at the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University, an editor of the journal Literature and Medicine, and an editor of the book, The Practice of Narrative Ethics (Routledge, forthcoming).
James F. Childress, Ph.D., is the Edwin B. Kyle Professor of Religious Studies and Professor of Medical Education at the University of Virginia, where he also directs the Institute for Practical Ethics. He is the author of numerous articles and several books including Principles of Biomedical Ethics (5th ed., Oxford University Press, 2001), with Tom L. Beauchamp, and Practical Reasoning in Bioethics (Indiana University Press, 1997).
Carl H. Coleman, J.D., is Associate Professor of Law and Associate Director of the Health Law and Policy Program at Seton Hall Law School. From 1995 to 2000, he was Executive Director of the New York State Task Force on Life and the Law.
Judith F. Daar, J.D., is Professor of Law at Whittier Law School. She is chair of the Los Angeles County Bar Association's Bioethics Committee Subcommittee on Reproductive Issues and a member of the Human Subjects Committee at Harbor-UCLA Hospital.
Jenny Chin-Lin Dai, an immigrant from Taiwan, is currently a fourth year medical student at the University of Chicago, Pritzker School of Medicine. She will be pursuing a residency training in Obstetrics and Gynecology. With a strong interest in international medicine, she hopes to work with underprivileged women in different regions of the world.
Norman Daniels, Ph.D., is Goldthwaite Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Tufts and a Senior Fellow at the Clinical Bioethics Center at the NIH. He is the author of Justice and Justification: Reflective Equilibrium in Theory and Practice (Cambridge University Press 1996), and a co-author of From Chance to Choice (Cambridge University Press, 2000), and Is Inequality Bad For Our Health (Beacon, 2000).
Rebecca Dresser, J.D., is Professor of Law and Humanities in Medicine, Washington University in St. Louis. She is the author of When Science Offers Salvation: Patient Advocacy and Research Ethics, (Oxford University Press, 2001.)
Carl Elliott teaches at the Center for Bioethics at the University of Minnesota. He is the author of A Philosophical Disease (Routledge, 1998), co-editor of The Last Physician: Walker Percy and the Moral Life of Medicine (Duke, 1999) and editor...
