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Pat Bracken is currently Clinical Director of the Mental Health Service in West Cork, Ireland. He trained in medicine, psychiatry, and philosophy in Ireland and in the UK. He was Professor of Philosophy, Diversity and Mental Health at the University of Central Lancashire from 2006 to 2008. He was co-editor of the book Rethinking the Trauma of War with Dr Celia Petty, published in 1998. His own book Trauma: Culture, Meaning and Philosophy was published in 2002. With Professor Phillip Thomas, he published the book Postpsychiatry: A New Direction for Mental Health in 2005. He can be contacted via email at Pat.Bracken@hse.ie
Hillel D. Braude completed his medical education and training at the University of Cape Town Medical School and his PhD at the University of Chicago. Since completing further studies as a postgraduate fellow and research assistant in McGill University’s Biomedical Ethics Unit and Religious Studies Faculty, his main area of research is neuroethics. His book manuscript, Intuition in Medicine: A Philosophical Defense of Clinical Reasoning is due to be published with The University of Chicago Press in 2012. He can be contacted via email at hillel.braude@mcgill.ca
James Giordano is the 2011–2012 Fulbright Professor of Neurosciences and Neuroethics at the Ludwig-Maximilians Universität, Munich, Germany. He is Professor of Integrative Physiology in the Department of Biochemistry, and Scholar-in-Residence and Chair of the Neuroethics Studies Program in the Center for Clinical Bioethics at Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC. Professor Giordano also serves as Director of the Center for Neurotechnology Studies at the Potomac Institute for Policy Studies, Arlington, Virginia, and is Research Professor of Neurosciences and Ethics in the Department of Electrical and Computational Engineering, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico. His ongoing work addresses the philosophical bases of the disease–illness continuum of chronic pain, the neurophilosophy of suffering and the phenomenal ‘self’ as contextual to neuroscience, pain medicine, and psychiatry, and the neuroethical issues arising in and from the use of neuroscience and neurotechnology in research and practice. He can be contacted via email at jgiordano@neurobioethics.org
Walter Glannon is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Calgary. He is the author of Bioethics and the Brain (Oxford, 2006) and Brain, Body, and Mind: Neuroethics with a Human Face (Oxford, 2011). He can be contacted via email at wglannon@ucalgary.ca
Gerrit Glas is a Philosopher and Psychiatrist. He is Professor of Philosophy and Psychiatry at Leiden University, Leiden (The Netherlands); Professor of Philosophy at VU University Amsterdam (Dooyeweerd chair); and Psychiatrist and Director of Residency Training in Dimence, Hospital for Mental Health in Zwolle (The Netherlands). He can be contacted via email at glasg@xs4all.nl [End Page 347]
Mona Gupta is a Consultation–Liaison Psychiatrist in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Montreal. Her academic focus lies in bioethics and philosophy of psychiatry. She can be contacted via email at mona.gupta@utoronto.ca
Gerben Meynen is working as a psychiatrist at an outpatient clinic for anxiety disorders. He has a PhD in Philosophy (on the concept of freedom) and in medicine (on the neurobiology of depression). He currently works on a project exploring the role of psychiatry in the philosophy of free will. Research interests: free will in psychiatric ethics and forensic psychiatry. Recent publications include “Should or should not forensic psychiatrists think about free will?” (Medicine, Healthcare and Philosophy 2009;12:203–212) and “Exploring the similarities and differences between medical assessments of competence and criminal responsibility” (Medicine Healthcare and philosophy DOI 10.1007/s11019-009-9211-1; 2009). He can be contacted via email at g.meynen@ph.vu.nl
Dan J. Stein is Professor and Chair of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Cape Town. His own work has focused on anxiety, obsessive–compulsive and related disorders, and trauma and stressor-related disorders; he has also mentored work on other issues particularly relevant to South African and African research, including neuro-HIV/AIDS and substance use disorders. He has employed a wide range of methodologies, ranging from basic science, through clinical research, and on to epidemiological investigations. He is...
