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Contributors
Terrence F. Ackerman, Ph.D., is Professor and Chairman in the Department of Human Values and Ethics, College of Medicine, University of Tennessee Health Science Center. He is the coauthor of A Casebook of Medical Ethics (Oxford University Press, 1989) and has written numerous articles and book chapters on ethical and regulatory issues in clinical research.
Armand H. Matheny Antommaria, M.D., Ph.D., is a Pediatric Resident at Primary Children's Medical Center/University of Utah.
Paul S. Appelbaum, M.D., is the A. F. Zeleznik Professor and Chair of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. Among his recent publications is Informed Consent: Legal Theory and Clinical Practice, 2nd ed. (Oxford University Press, 2001).
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 (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999), which he coedited with Arthur Caplan, Linda Emanuel, and Stephen Latham.
Peter J. Cohen, M.D., J.D., is Adjunct Professor of Law at the Georgetown University Law Center, where he teaches Drug Abuse and the Law: Policy, Politics, and Public Health. He is Chair of the Physicians Health Program of the District of Columbia Medical Society and Vice Chair of the Institutional Review Board of the Intramural Research Program of the National Institute on Drug Abuse.
Ann Freeman Cook, Ph.D., is Associate Professor and Faculty Member of the Honors College at the University of Montana. She is also the Principal Investigator and Director of the National Rural Bioethics Project, a multimethodology research initiative supported by the Charles E. Culpeper Foundation, a division of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, the Greenwall Foundation, and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.
Carl Elliott, Ph.D., is Director of Graduate Studies at the Center for Bioethics at the University of Minnesota. He is the author of A Philosophical Disease (Routledge, 1999) and the coeditor of The Last Physician: Walker Percy and the Moral Life of Medicine (Duke, 1999). He is also the editor of Slow Cures and Bad Philosophers: Wittgenstein, Medicine and Bioethics (Duke, 2001).
Ian Freckelton is Barrister-at-Law, Law Faculty, Adjunct Professor, and Vice-President of the International Institute of Forensic Studies at Monash University, as well as Adjunct Professor in the Department of Law and Legal Studies at LaTrobe University. He is the author of some 25 books on health law, criminal law, evidence law, and criminology and is Editor of the Journal of Law and Medicine, the Editor in-Chief of Psychiatry, Psychology and Law, and International Editor of Behavioral Sciences and the Law.
Kathleen Cranley Glass, LLB, LLD, is a clinical ethicist and health care lawyer at McGill University, where she is the Director of the Biomedical Ethics Unit and Associate Professor in the Departments of Human Genetics and Pediatrics.
David Healy, M.D., FRC Psych., is Director of the North Wales Department of Psychological Medicine and a Consultant Psychiatrist. He is the author of over 100 peer reviewed articles and 13 books, including the reference history of antidepressants, The Antidepressant Era (Harvard University Press, 1999).
Helena Hoas, Ph.D., is Associate Professor at the University of Montana and the Research Director for the National Rural Bioethics Project.
Nancy S. Jecker, Ph.D., is Professor of Ethics at the University of Washington School of Medicine, Department of Medical History and Ethics. She is coauthor, with Lawrence Schneiderman, of Wrong Medicine: Doctors, Patients and Futile Treatment (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995 and 2000) and coeditor, with Albert Jonsen and Robert Pearlman, of Bioethics: An Introduction to the History, Methods, and Practice (Jones and Bartlett, 1997).
Dana Katz, M.Be., is the Research Ethics Outreach Coordinator at the University of Pennsylvania Center for Bioethics, and a former Analyst for SmithKline Beecham and Research Fellow at The Pew Charitable Trusts. She is the coauthor of the entry on "Patenting Publicly Funded Research" in The Encyclopedia of Ethical, Legal and Policy Issues in Biotechnology (Wiley-Interscience, 2000).
Karen Kovach, Ph.D, is Assistant Professor of Biomedical Ethics at Mercer University School of Medicine.
Charles J Kowalski, Ph.D., is Professor of Dentistry in the Department of Biologic and Materials Sciences at the University of Michigan. He is also a Statistician at the University of Michigan Center for Statistical Consultation and Research and Chair of the Health Sciences Institutional Review Board. He is involved in the development of Web-based educational materials dealing with the Responsible Conduct of Research.
Trudo Lemmens, Lic Iur, LLM, is Assistant Professor in the Faculties of Law and Medicine at the University of Toronto.
Walter Ling, M.D., is a board-certified neurologist and psychiatrist and Professor of Psychiatry and Director of the Integrated Substance Abuse Programs at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is also a consultant for numerous private and public agencies, including the California Medical Association, the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, the U.S. Department of State, the U.N. Office of International Narcotics Affairs, and theWorld Health Organization. Dr. Ling has been widely published in the area of substance abuse treatment research.
Howard Mann, M.D., is a Program Associate in the Division of Medical Ethics, University of Utah School of Medicine. He has proposed A Standard for the Scientific and Ethical Review of Trials by research ethics committees (http://www.assert-statement.org).
Carolyn McLeod, Ph.D., is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. She is the author of the forthcoming Self-Trust and Reproductive Autonomy (MIT Press, 2002).
Paul B. Miller, M.Phil., is a J.D./Ph.D. candidate in Law and Philosophy at the University of Toronto and a Junior Fellow of Massey College in Toronto. Mr. Miller has also studied history and philosophy of science and medicine at the University of Cambridge, Cambridge University in England where his dissertation focused on philosophical problems in the moral evaluation of research-related risks.
Joseph R. Neuberger is the Director of the Delaware Chapter of the National Alliance of Methadone Advocates (NAMA). He is Publisher of The Advocate, the quarterly publication of NAMA and a Director of and Webmaster for http://www.BitchAndGripe.com, a site [End Page iii] devoted to preserving methadone patient rights through the clinic accreditation process.
Charles P. O'Brien, M.D., Ph.D., is Chief of Psychiatry at the Philadelphia Veterans Administration Medical Center, Vice-Chairman of Psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania, and Director of the Center for Studies of Addiction. His research group is responsible for numerous discoveries, described in over 400 publications, that have improved the results of treatment for addictive disorders.
Amber Orr, J.D., is currently the Senior Fellow at the Institute for Ethics of the American Medical Association. She has received several distinctions from the University of Houston Law Center, including a Public Interest Law Organization Grant (1999-2000), the Irving J. Weiner Memorial Scholarship (March 2000), and the John B. Neibel Scholarship (March 1999).
Christian Perring, Ph.D., is Assistant Professor and Chair of the Philosophy Department at Dowling College. He is editor of Metapsychology Online Review. He has recently published "Involuntariness as a Criterion of Disorder" in Descriptions and Prescriptions: Values, Mental Disorders, and the DSMs (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002) and "Mental Illness" in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/mental-illness, 2001).
David B. Resnik, Ph.D., is Associate Professor in the Department of Medical Humanities at the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University. He is the author of The Ethics of Science (Routledge, 1998) and Germline Gene Therapy: Scientific, Moral, and Political Issues (RG Landes, 1999), as well as numerous articles on bioethics, research ethics, and the philosophy of biology and medicine.
Rosamond Rhodes, Ph.D., is Director of Bioethics Education at Mount Sinai School of Medicine and a Member of the Doctoral Faculty of the Ph.D. Program in Philosophy at The Graduate School, CUNY. She is Editor of the APA Newsletter on Philosophy and Medicine and coeditor of Physician Assisted Suicide Expanding the Debate (Routledge, 1998).
Laura Weiss Roberts, M.D., M.A., is Associate Professor and Vice Chairman in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center. She is the Founder and Director of the Empirical Ethics Group and serves as the Director for the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center's Institute for Ethics Research, Education, and Policy. Dr. Roberts is a National Institutes of Health-funded career scientist. She has written extensively in ethics and medicine and was named Editor-in-Chief for the journal Academic Psychiatry.
Dominique Sprumont, Ph.D., is Associate Professor at the Law Faculties of the Universities of Fribourg and Neuchâtel (Switzerland) and Deputy Director of the Institute of Health Law of the University of Neuchâtel (Switzerland). She collaborated in drafting legislation on the regulation of clinical trials of the intercantonal office for the control of medicine
David Steinberg, M.D., is Editor of the Lahey Clinic Medical Ethics Newsletter and Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He is chief of the Department of Hematology at the Lahey Clinic.
Howard Trachtman, M.D., is Professor of Pediatrics at Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Director of Pediatric Nephrology at Schneider Children's Hospital of the North Shore-LIJ Health System. He coedited a monograph on pediatric nephrology and has written over 100 articles. He is also the Book Review Editor for the journal Pediatric Nephrology.
Robert M. Veatch, Ph.D., is Professor of Medical Ethics and former Director of The Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Georgetown University. His recent books include The Basics of Bioethics (Prentice-Hall, 2000) and Transplantation Ethics (Georgetown University Press, 2001).
Duff Waring, LLB, Ph.D., is a Lawyer who specialized in mental health law and psychiatric patient advocacy. He is currently a postdoctoral Fellow with the Clinical Trials Research Group at McGill University.
Charles Weijer, M.D., Ph.D., is Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Department of Bioethics at Dalhousie University. Recent work on communities in genetic research appeared in Nature Genetics (1999) and Science (2000).
Matthew Wynia, M.D., M.P.H., is Assistant Vice-President for Ethics Standards and the Director of the Institute for Ethics at the American Medical Association. Dr. Wynia's research has been published in the New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA, and other leading medical journals. Dr. Wynia practices in internal medicine and infectious diseases at the University of Chicago Hospitals, where he is a Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine. [End Page iv]
