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  • Contributors

John D. Arras is Porterfield Professor of Biomedical Ethics and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Virginia. He recently served on the Ethics Committee at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta.

Raymond G. de Vries is a professor at the University of Michigan Medical School and a member of the Bioethics Program, the Department of Medical Education, and the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology. He coedited The View from Here: Bioethics and the Social Sciences (Wiley-Blackwell, 2007).

Barbara Farlow, a mechanical engineer, is a member of Patients for Patient Safety Canada and the Communication and Information Advisory Committee of the Canadian Patient Safety Institute, as well as a World Alliance for Patient Safety Champion.

Elizabeth M. Fenton is a postdoctoral fellow in the Harvard University Program in Ethics and Health.

Kyle L. Galbraith is a clinical ethics fellow at the Center for Biomedical Ethics and Society at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.

Susan Dorr Goold is a professor of internal medicine and directs the Bioethics Program at the University of Michigan Medical School.

Elisa J. Gordon is research associate professor in the Institute for Healthcare Studies and the Department of Surgery, Division of Organ Transplantation, at the Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University.

Lawrence O. Gostin is associate dean for research and academic programs and the Linda D. and Timothy J. O'Neill Professor of Global Health Law at Georgetown University Law Center. His latest book is Public Health Law: Power, Duty, Restraint (University of California Press, 2nd ed., 2009).

Carla C. Keirns is an assistant professor of preventive medicine in the Center for Medical Humanities, Compassionate Care, and Bioethics at Stony Brook University.

Nell Burger Kirst is a first-year resident at the University of Michigan Family Medicine Residency Program.

Hilde Lindemann is professor of philosophy at Michigan State University. She coedited Naturalized Bioethics (Cambridge, 2008) and is president of the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities.

Anna C. Mastroianni is associate professor at the University of Washington School of Law and Institute for Public Health Genetics.

Mary Faith Marshall is professor of bioethics and of family medicine and community health at the University of Minnesota. She coauthored the first two editions of Introduction to Clinical Ethics (University Publishing Group, 1995 and 1997).

Howard Minkoff is a distinguished professor of obstetrics and gynecology at SUNY Downstate and chair of obstetrics and gynecology at Maimonides Medical Center.

Joshua E. Perry is assistant professor of business law and ethics in the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University Bloomington.

Vinay Prasad is a physician at Northwestern Memorial Hospital. He is working on a program pairing medical and environmental decision-making.

Christopher James Ryan is a consultation liaison psychiatrist at Sydney's Westmead Hospital, a senior clinical lecturer in psychological medicine at the University of Sydney, and a member of the University's Center for Values, Ethics and the Law in Medicine. [End Page 48]

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