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Mark Bratton is an ordained Anglican priest and Senior Chaplain at the University of Warwick. He is a former practicing barrister specializing in medical law. He teaches Values-in-Medicine at the Medical School in the University of Warwick. He has published a number of articles on medical law and ethics, and the relationship between spirituality, medicine and mental disorder. He can be contacted via e-mail at: M.Q.Bratton@warwick.ac.uk
Louis C. Charland (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. Charland 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 at the Department of Philosophy and Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada N6A 3K7, or via e-mail at: charland@uwo.ca. His web site can be found at: http://publish.uwo.ca/~charland
Simona Giordano is Senior Lecturer in Bioethics at the University of Manchester. She is the author of Understanding Eating Disorders, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2005. She has published a number of articles on eating disorders, gender identity disorder, obesity, and psychopathy. She can be contacted via e-mail at: simona.giordano@manchester.ac.uk
James Gray joined Northumbria University Law School in Newcastle-upon-Tyne in 1999. His first degree was in philosophy at the University of Liverpool, the origin of his interest in jurisprudence, which led later to a law degree at the University of Kent and to his becoming a barrister in 1997. Pupillage at the Chambers of Antony Shaw QC was followed by a year working at the Tax Law Rewrite Project. Now a Principal Lecturer at Northumbria, James teaches jurisprudence and a number of subjects on the Bar Vocational Course. His particular interest in legal theory is in its development as part of the history of ideas. His research interests are in in law and literature, the political aspects of legal theory, and the jurisprudential possibilities of subjects normally seen as marginal such as anarchism and love. He can be contacted via e-mail at: james.gray@northumbria. ac.uk
Mike Martin is Professor of Philosophy at Chapman University (Orange, CA). His recent books include From Morality to Mental Health: Virtue and Vice in a Therapeutic Culture (Oxford, 2006), Albert Schweitzer’s Reverence for Life: Ethical Idealism and Self-Realization (Ashgate, 2007), and Creativity: Ethics and Excellence in Science [End Page 175] (Lexington Books, 2008). He can be contacted via e-mail at: mwmartin@chapman.edu
Nancy Nyquist Potter is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Louisville. She teaches medical ethics both to nursing students and medical students in addition to courses such as Race, Gender, and Mental Illness, Philosophy and Mental Illness, and Medicine and Minorities. Her primary area of research is philosophy and psychiatry, particularly psychiatric ethics. She has published How can I be trusted? A virtue theory of trustworthiness (Rowman-Littlefield, 2002), the anthology Putting peace into practice: Evaluating policy on local and global levels (Rodopi, 2004), and the anthology Trauma, truth, and reconciliation: Healing damaged relationships (Oxford University Press, 2006). Professor Potter is currently writing a book on borderline personality disorder for Oxford University Press’s International Per spectives in Philosophy and Psychiatry. She is president of the Association for the Advancement of Philosophy and Psychiatry and an international speaker in this field. She can be contacted via email at: Nancy.Potter@louisville.edu
Floris Tomasini is a Lecturer in the Philosophy of Mental Health at UCLan, taking a special interest in phenomenological approaches to understanding mental health and well being. He is also interested in continental philosophy, bioethics in general, and psychiatric ethics in...
