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Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology 13.4 (2007) 321-322

About the Authors

Paul S. Appelbaum is the Elizabeth K. Dollard Professor of Psychiatry and Director, Division of Psychiatry, Law and Ethics, Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University. Much of his recent research has focused on decisional capacity for consent to treatment, research, and other tasks. Together with Dr Grisso, he developed the MacArthur Competence Assessment Tools for Treatment and Clinical Research (MacCAT-T and MacCAT-CR). He can be contacted via e-mail at psa21@columbia.edu

Matthew R. Broome is Lecturer and Consultant Psychiatrist in the Section of Neuroimaging, Division of Psychological Medicine, Institute of Psychiatry in London. His research interests include structural and functional neuroimaging in psychotic illness, cognitive models of delusion formation, the prodrome and transition to psychosis, and the philosophy of psychiatry and cognitive neuroscience. His clinical work is with both the University of the Arts Student Counselling Service and the OASIS Prodromal Psychosis service. Recent publications include "What causes the onset of psychosis?" (Schizophrenia Research 79, no. 1:23–4, 2005) and "OASIS: A service for the prodrome of psychosis in South London" )European Psychiatry 20:372–8, 2005). He can be contacted via e-mail at m.broome@iop.kcl.ac.uk

Louis C. Charland (PhD, Philosophy, University of Western Ontario, 1989) is currently Associate Professor in the Departments of Philosophy and Psychiatry at the University of Western Ontario, where he also holds a joint appointment with the Faculty of Health Sciences. He worked as a program consultant and research analyst in the area of health for several successive branches of the provincial government of Ontario, Canada. Following this, he held several bioethics-related positions at McGill University in Montreal and the University of Toronto. He has published widely in the philosophy of psychiatry and the philosophy of emotion. In 2003, he was awarded a Visiting Member Fellowship at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. He can be contacted via e-mail at charland@ uwo.ca. His website can be found at http://publish.uwo.ca/~charland.

Ray Fitzpatrick is Professor of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Oxford. Before moving to Oxford, he was a lecturer in the Academic Department of Psychiatry, Middlesex Hospital Medical School, London. His interests focus on the use of social science methods, quantitative and qualitative, to evaluate healthcare interventions from the patient's and user's perspective. He can be contacted via e-mail at raymond.fitzpatrick@nuffield.oxford.ac.uk

Thomas Grisso is Professor of Psychiatry, Director of the Law and Psychiatry Program, and Director of Psychology at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. With Dr Appelbaum, he authored the book, Assessing Competence to Consent [End Page 321] to Treatment, in part reporting their research for the MacArthur Foundation Research Network on Mental Health and Law. He can be contacted via e-mail at Thomas.Grisso@umassmed.edu

Tony Hope is Professor of Medical Ethics at the University of Oxford, Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist, and Fellow of St Cross College, Oxford. He has carried out research in basic neuroscience and Alzheimer's Disease. Since 1990 his research has focused on clinical ethics. His books include The Oxford Handbook of Clinical Medicine (editions 1–4); Manage Your Mind; Medical Ethics and Law: the Core Curriculum; and Medical Ethics: A very Short Introduction. He can be contacted via e-mail at tony.hope@ethox.ox.ac.uk

Anne Stewart is a Consultant Adolescent Psychiatrist working within an adolescent community mental health service in Oxford. She has a long-standing interest in ethical issues in clinical practice, and is chair of her Mental Healthcare Trust Clinical Ethics Committee. She has a clinical and research interest in treatment decision making in eating disorders. She can be contacted via e-mail at Anne.Stewart@obmh.nhs.uk

Jacinta O. A. Tan is an Honorary Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist, medical ethicist and Senior Clinical Research Fellow, based at the Ethox Centre at the University of Oxford. She has just completed a series of empirical research studies investigating the ethical issues involved in treatment...

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