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Sayantani DasGupta is a faculty member in the general pediatrics division and the narrative medicine program at Columbia University. She wrote Her Own Medicine: A Woman’s Journey from Student to Doctor (Fawcett, 1999).

Sharon P. Douglas is associate chief of staff education and ethics at the G.V. (Sonny) Montgomery VA Medical Center and associate professor at the University of Mississippi School of Medicine.

Chris Durante is currently undertaking a master of arts in religious studies at Georgia State University.

Rosa T. Garner is nursing director for geriatrics and long-term care at the G.V. (Sonny) Montgomery VA Medical Center.

Lawrence O. Gostin is associate dean and Linda T. and Timothy D. O’Neill Professor of Global Health Law at Georgetown University. He wrote Public Health Law: Power, Duty, Restraint (Milbank Memorial Fund and University of California, second edition forthcoming).

Summer Johnson is assistant professor of medicine at the Alden March Bioethics Institute at Albany Medical College and interim director of the ethics in novel technologies, research, and innovation program there.

Jeffrey P. Kahn holds the Maas Family Endowed Chair in Bioethics at the University of Minnesota. He directs the University’s Center for Bioethics.

S. Matthew Liao is deputy director and James Martin Senior Research Fellow at the James Martin Twenty-First Century School at Oxford University.

Hilde Lindemann teaches philosophy at Michigan State University and edits Hypatia, a journal of feminist philosophy. She wrote An Invitation to Feminist Ethics (McGraw-Hill, 2005).

Jonathan H. Marks is associate professor of bioethics, humanities, and law at Pennsylvania State University. He directs the bioethics program at University Park and has a joint appointment in the College of Medicine at Hershey.

Christopher Meyers teaches philosophy and directs the Kegley Institute of Ethics at California State University, Bakersfield. He is on staff at Kern Medical Center. He wrote A Practical Guide to Ethics Consulting: Ethos, Power and Culture (Rowman & Littlefield, forthcoming).

Roy R. Reeves is associate chief of staff for mental health at the G.V. (Sonny) Montgomery VA Medical Center and teaches at the University of Mississippi School of Medicine.

Marti D. Reynolds is chief of the chaplain service at the G.V. (Sonny) Montgomery VA Medical Center.

Julian Savulescu holds the Uehiro Chair in Practical Ethics and directs the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics in the James Martin Twenty-First Century School at Oxford University. He coauthored Medical Ethics and Law: The Core Curriculum (Churchill Livingstone, 2003).

Anita Silvers, professor and chair of philosophy at San Francisco State University, writes on health care justice topics from enhancement technologies to impairment. She coedited and contributed to the recent Blackwell Guide to Medical Ethics (Blackwell, 2006).

Mark Sheehan is a James Martin Research Fellow at the James Martin Twenty-First Century School at Oxford University.

Gopal Sreenivasan holds a Canada research chair in the department of philosophy at the University of Toronto. His second book is Emotion and Virtue (Princeton, forthcoming).

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