Contributors
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Mark Navin, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Oakland University (Rochester, MI). He holds a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Pennsylvania. His research is primarily in social/political philosophy and bioethics. His book, Values and Vaccine Refusal: Hard Questions in Ethics, Epistemology, and Health Care, is forthcoming from Routledge. Correspondence address: Department of Philosophy, Oakland University, Rochester, MI 48309-4401, USA. E-mail: navin@oakland.edu
Heidi Malm, PhD, is a Professor of Philosophy at Loyola University Chicago. Her areas of specialization are normative ethical theory, bioethics, and the philosophy of law. Her research focuses on theoretical and applied issues involving personal autonomy and the prevention of harm. Prior publications have addressed the distinction between causing harm and not preventing it, legal paternalism, bad Samaritan laws, healthcare professionals’ duty to treat, cancer and genetic screening, surrogate motherhood, and the ontology and relevance of consent.
Andrew Siegel, PhD, is a Research Scholar and Core Faculty in the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics. He received his JD and PhD in Philosophy from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Dr. Siegel was a Greenwall Fellow in Bioethics and Health Policy. He has served as Staff Philosopher for the National Bioethics Advisory Commission, Legislative Fellow for Senator Edward M. Kennedy and the Labor and Human Resources Committee, and Staff Attorney for the Task Force on Genetic Testing of the Working Group on the Ethical, Legal and Social Issues of the Human Genome Project. His current research focuses on ethical and legal issues in human stem cell research, exploitation in research, and social justice.
Andreas Matthias, PhD, is currently employed as senior teaching fellow in philosophy at Lingnan University, Hong Kong. Before embarking on his PhD in philosophy, Andreas worked for over 20 years in Germany as a software developer, webmaster, and programming languages teacher. He is interested in robot and technology ethics, philosophy of A.I., virtue ethics, and the philosophy of happiness. Relevant publications include: Algorithmic moral control of war robots: Philosophical questions (2011); Automata as holders of rights (book in German, 2008); and The Responsibility Gap. Ascribing Responsibility for the Actions of Learning Automata (2004).
Paul Biegler, PhD, is Adjunct Research Fellow in Bioethics at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. He received an MBBS from Monash University and is a Fellow of the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine. He also holds Master’s and Doctoral degrees in Bioethics from Monash University. His [End Page vi] research focuses on ethical issues at the intersection of health, psychology, and neuroscience. His book The Ethical Treatment of Depression (MIT Press 2011) won the Australian Museum Eureka Prize for Research in Ethics. Research for his article was funded by an Australian Research Council Postdoctoral Fellowship and Discovery Project Grant. [End Page vii]
