About the Authors
Buy Issue for $25 at JHUPMichael Bavidge has recently retired from his position as Lecturer in Philosophy and Head of the Adult Education Programme at Newcastle University. He has written on problems arising out of medical practice including psychopathy, aging, and pain management. As Chairman of the Philosophical Society of England, he aims to bring academic and nonacademic philosophers together to encourage wide discussion of philosophical issues. He can be contacted by e-mail at m.c.bavidge@ncl.ac.uk.
John Bond is Professor of Social Gerontology and Health Services Research at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne. He specializes in research on the psychosocial and economic aspects of dementia. He contributes to clinical trials of interventions for older people and has written and published extensively. John has worked in Newcastle since 1979 and is Director of the Centre for Health Services Research and a member of the Institute for Aging and Health. Publications include: Corner, L., and J. Bond, 2004. Being at risk of dementia: Fears and anxieties of older adults. Journal of Aging Studies 18:143-155. He can be contacted by e-mail at john.bond@ncl.ac.uk.
Dr. Lynne Corner is a Research Associate at the Centre for Health Services Research and Institute for Ageing and Health, University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne. She is also Coordinator for Years Ahead—the North East Forum on Ageing. She specializes in researching psychosocial and cultural aspects of aging and has a particular interest in the health and social care of older people with dementia and their carers and quality of life assessment. Dr. Corner is co-author with John Bond of Quality of Life for Older People (2004) Open University Press. She can be contacted by e-mail at l.s.corner@ncl.ac.uk.
Atwood D. Gaines, Ph.D., M.P.H., is Professor of Anthropology, Biomedical Ethics, Nursing, and Psychiatry at Case Western Reserve University and its Schools of Medicine and Nursing. He gained his doctoral degrees from the University of California at Berkeley. His areas of research include social identity (ethnic, gender, age) and health care, ethnopsychiatry and ethnomedicine, psychogeriatrics and biomedical ethics. His books include, Ethnopsychiatry with two published (with Robert Hahn) on cultural studies of Western biomedicine. He is a contributing author of the Cultural Formulation Appendix of the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, 4th Edition (DSM IV), 1994. He has been involved in extensive international research. He can be contacted by e-mail at atwood.gaines@case.edu; or at www.cwru.edu/artsci/anth/faculty/gaines.html.
Janice E. Graham Ph.D., is a medical anthropologist interested in diagnostic imaginaries, biotechnology, and technoscience. Her work on the diagnostics of Alzheimer's disease and other dementias during the 1990s led to an examination [End Page 89] of the moral basis of profit when disease is defined as a market opportunity; a book is near completion. She held an endowed Research Chair in Medical Anthropology at the University of British Columbia (1998-2002), a Canadian Institutes of Health Research New Investigator award (1999-2002), and a postdoctoral fellowship in geriatric medicine and neuroepidemiology. Her current research unpacks safety and efficacy in regulatory practices and policies. She currently holds the Canada Research Chair in Bioethics in the Faculty of Medicine at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Canada. She can be contacted by e-mail at Janice.Graham@dal.ca.
Andy Hamilton is a lecturer in Philosophy at Durham University who works in the areas of philosophy of mind and aesthetics. His recent work includes two forthcoming monographs, "Exploring Self-Consciousness" and "Aesthetics and Music" (Continuum). He can be contacted by e-mail at a.j.hamilton@dur.ac.uk.
Dr. Julian C. Hughes is a consultant in old-age psychiatry and an honorary clinical senior lecturer at the Institute for Ageing and Health in the University of Newcastle. He currently chairs the Philosophy Special Interest Group of the Royal College of Psychiatrists. Recent edited volumes include Palliative Care in Severe Dementia (Quay Books, 2005) and (with Stephen...
