Contributors
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Robert Darby is an independent scholar with an interest in many aspects of social, cultural and medical history, as well as contemporary bioethical and human rights issues. He is the author of A Surgical Temptation: The Demonization of the Foreskin and the Rise of Circumcision in Britain (University of Chicago Press, 2005) and numerous journal articles on historical, medical and ethical aspects of male and female genital cutting. He lives in Canberra, Australia.
Bridget Pratt, PhD, is a Hecht-Levi post-doctoral research fellow at the Berman Institute of Bioethics and the Department of International Health at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She is a recipient of the Australian National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Early Career Sidney Sax Public Health Overseas Fellowship. Bridget’s research interests include the ethics of international research and health development programs, with a focus on the promotion of global justice.
Adnan A. Hyder, MPH, MD, PhD, is a professor in the Department of International Health at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. He is the Director of the Health Systems program, Director of the International Injury Research Unit (a World Health Organization Collaborating Center for Injuries, Violence and Accident Prevention), and Associate Director at the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics. He serves as Co-Director of the NIH-Fogarty International Research Ethics Training Program at the Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Kristof Van Assche is postdoctoral researcher in bioethics at the Bioethics Institute Ghent (BIG), Belgium. He obtained a PhD in philosophy and a PhD in law and conducts research on the ethical and legal issues surrounding organ transplantation and biobanking. He is a member of the Ethics Committee of The Transplantation Society, the Ethical, Legal and Psychosocial Aspects of Organ Transplantation (ELPAT) section of the European Society for Organ Transplantation, and the Declaration of Istanbul Custodian Group (DICG).
Laura Capitaine obtained a PhD in philosophy at Ghent University, Belgium, focusing on ethical problems surrounding the use of age as a criterion for medical decision-making, with particular attention to the context of organ transplantation.
Guido Pennings is Professor of Ethics and Bioethics at Ghent University (Belgium) and the director of the Bioethics Institute Ghent (BIG). He mainly publishes on ethical problems associated with medically assisted reproduction and genetics. He is a member of the Task Force on Ethics and Law of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology (ESHRE), the Belgian National Advisory Committee for Bioethics, and the Federal Commission on research on embryos in vitro. [End Page vi]
Sigrid Stercx is postdoctoral researcher in bioethics at the Bioethics Institute Ghent (BIG), Belgium. He obtained a PhD in philosophy and a PhD in law and conducts research on the ethical and legal issues surrounding organ transplantation and biobanking. He is a member of the Ethics Committee of The Transplantation Society, the Ethical, Legal and Psychosocial Aspects of Organ Transplantation (ELPAT) section of the European Society for Organ Transplantation, and the Declaration of Istanbul Custodian Group (DICG).
Sofia Jeppsson was awarded a degree of Doctor of Philosophy at Stockholm University in 2012 for her dissertation discussing free will, moral agency and moral responsibility. Since then, she has continued her work on free will and moral responsibility as well as delving into areas of applied ethics, at Stockholm University, the University of Gothenburg and the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences. [End Page vii]
