About the Authors
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Rachel Bingham read philosophy at University College London and completed her masters in philosophy of mental disorder at King’s College London. She qualified as a medical doctor at King’s College London. Her academic interests include ethical treatment in psychiatry and justice in health care. She has published on the ethical status of psychiatric coercion. She currently works as a registrar in General Practice. She can be contacted via email at: rachelbingham@nhs.net
Jonathan Bolton is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at UNM, the Director of the Office of Professionalism for the UNM Health Sciences Center, and Instructor in the Department of Anthropology. For over twenty years, he has been interested in medicine as practice. He has published on the creation of trust in medical settings, the uses of rhetoric by physicians, influences on the physician’s sense of ‘self-belief’, and biases in anthropological analyses of medical practice. He can be contacted via email at jwbolton@salud.unm.edu
Howard Brody was the John P. McGovern Centennial Chair in Family Medicine and Director of the Institute for the Medical Humanities of the University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, between 2006 and 2014. He is currently on leave. He is the author of Stories of Sickness (2nd edition, Oxford University Press, 2003). He can be contacted via email at hbrody13@gmail.com
Alexandre Erler is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the CREUM, University of Montreal, and a Research Associate at the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics. His doctoral thesis addresses the question whether authenticity sets any moral limits to ways of transforming oneself that can be regarded as enhancements. Besides ethics, his research interests include political philosophy, the philosophy of religion, and psychology. He can be contacted via email at alexandre.erler@umontreal.ca
Tony Hope was Professor of Medical Ethics at the Ethox Centre in the University of Oxford and an Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist. He is Emeritus Fellow at St Cross College, Oxford. His two main areas of research have been the behavioral changes in people with dementia and medical ethics with a particular interest in the combination of ethical analysis and the collection of empirical data. He has done work particularly in the field of mental health ethics and in resource allocation. In addition to research papers and various other books he co-edited Empirical Ethics in Psychiatry and is the author of Medical Ethics: A Very Short Introduction, both published by Oxford University Press. He can be contacted via email at tonyhope@doctors.org.uk
Bradley Lewis is Associate Professor at New York University’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study with affiliated appointments in the [End Page 273] Department of Social and Cultural Analysis and the Department of Psychiatry. His writing and teaching is at the interface of medicine, psychiatry, humanities, and cultural/disability studies. He is an Associate Editor for the Journal of Medical Humanities and his recent books are devoted to the role of narrative in clinical care. His current research is focused on the ways art, politics, and spirituality impact narratives of flourishing and disability. He can be contacted via email at BL466@nyu.edu
Peter Lucas is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Central Lancashire, Preston, UK, where he is Course Leader for the University’s BA Philosophy Program. His main philosophical interests lie at the interface of ethics, epistemology, and post-Kantian European philosophy. In particular, he is interested in the special ethical obligations that arise, in professional ethics and more generally, from our shared capacity for self-knowledge. He is the author of a number of articles and book chapters in modern European philosophy, the philosophy of communication, and applied and professional ethics. His recent book Ethics and Self-Knowledge: Respect for Self-Interpreting Agents was published by Springer in 2011. He can be contacted via email at Plucas1@uclan.ac.uk
Joanna Moncrieff is a Senior Lecturer at University of Central Lancashire and a practicing psychiatrist. She is the Co-Chairperson of the Critical Psychiatry Network, and author of many books and articles...
