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David H. Brendel holds an M.D. from Harvard Medical School and a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Chicago. He was a Faculty Fellow in the Harvard University Center for Ethics and the Professions and is currently an instructor in psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and a practicing psychiatrist at McLean Hospital. He has published articles on philosophical aspects of psychiatric explanation and on the role of clinical pragmatism in psychiatric ethics. He can be reached at the Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, McLean Hospital, 115 Mill Street, Belmont, MA 02478. Phone: 617-855-3498; Fax: 617-855-2936; e-mail: dbrendel@partners.org
Gerald Casenave (Ph.D. Vanderbilt University, 1977; Ph.D. UT Southwestern Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, 1990) is a clinical and rehabilitation psychologist interested in adjustment to disability issues and ethical issues in medicine and rehabilitation. He is currently a clinical assistant professor at UT Southwestern School of Allied Health Sciences and an adjunct professor in the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences. He maintains a hospital based practice working with a diverse rehabilitation population including individuals with spinal cord injury, traumatic brain injury, stroke, and chronic pain. He can be reached at the Department of Rehabilitation Counseling, University of Texas Southwestern School of Allied Health Sciences, Dallas, Texas.
Jennifer Clegg is a Senior Lecturer with University of Nottingham and Hon. Consultant Clinical Psychologist with Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust. She has explored the implications of taking an interactional rather than an individual perspective on intellectual disability theoretically in Critical Issues in Clinical Practice (Sage 1998); empirically through research into relationships and contexts; and clinically through registration with the UKCP as a family therapist. She can be reached at the Division of Rehabilitation & Ageing, University Hospital, Nottingham, NG7 2UH, e-Phone: 0115 9529462 (Jo Battershall); fax: 0115 9529447; e-mail: Jennifer.Clegg@Nottingham.ac.uk
Sheila Colman has lifelong experience of living with learning disabled family members. Her family is currently undergoing genetic investigation. She can be reached at 1 Rose Hill, Keyworth, Nottinghamshire, NG12 5GR, UK. Phone: Tel: 0115 937 4734; e-mail: sheilacolman@beeb.net
Jennifer Hansen is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Gettysburg College. She received her PhD in Philosophy from the State University of New York at Stony Brook in 1999. Her primary areas of research are feminist philosophy and the intersection of philosophy and psychiatry. She also edits a journal entitled Studies in Practical Philosophy (Lexington Press). She can be reached at the Department of Philosophy, Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, PA 17325. Phone: 717-337-6785; fax: 717-337-6777; e-mail: jhansen@gettysburg.edu [End Page 103]
Christa Krüger (M.D. University of Warwick, UK, 1999) is a psychiatrist and senior lecturer in the Department of Psychiatry, University of Pretoria, South Africa, whose research interests include a focus on dissociation and its potential concomitant neurophysiological changes. She is the author of “Psychometric validation of the State Scale of Dissociation (SSD)” in Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice (2002), 75(1):33–51, and recently co-authored a paper on “Incapacity to give informed consent owing to mental disorder” in Journal of Medical Ethics (2003), 29(1):41–43. She can be reached at the Department of Psychiatry, University of Pretoria, P.O. Box 667, Pretoria, 0001, South Africa. Phone: +27 12 354 5309; fax: +27 12 354 5130; e-mail: ckruger@med.up.ac.za
Richard Lansdall-Welfare is a Consultant Psychiatrist working with people who have intellectual disability and mental health problems within Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust. He has a particular interest in the social determinants of ill health and the contribution of philosophy to practice in this area.
Katherine Morris (D.Phil Oxford 1983) is a philosopher interested in Descartes, Wittgenstein, phenomenology and the philosophy of psychopathology. She is currently supernumerary fellow in philosophy at Mansfield College, Oxford University, where she has been teaching since 1986. Recent publications include Descartes’ Dualism (Routledge: London, 1996) (with Gordon Baker) and “The Phenomenology of Body Dysmorphic Disorder”, forthcoming in the first volume (Nature and Narrative) of the OUP International Perspectives in Psychiatry and Philosophy series, gen. edd. K.W.M. Fulford et al. She...
