Contributors
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Alan Cribb, PhD, is Professor of Bioethics and Education at King's College London. He is co-director of the Centre for Public Policy Research and principal investigator on the Wellcome Trust-funded project "But why is that better?" which is exploring what applied philosophy and ethics can bring to healthcare quality improvement research and practice. His interests include professional education, sociology of ethics, and healthcare policy analysis.
Vikki A. Entwistle, PhD, studies values and ethics in health care provision, using approaches that draw on social sciences and philosophy. She is currently Professor and Director of the Centre for Biomedical Ethics at the National University of Singapore. She is a co-investigator on the Wellcome Trust-funded project "But why is that better?". Recent scholarship has included the development of more robust accounts of key concepts relating to person-centered care, including shared decision-making and support for self-management.
Jill A. Fisher, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Social Medicine in the Center for Bioethics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is the author of Medical Research for Hire: The Political Economy of Pharmaceutical Clinical Trials (Rutgers University Press, 2009) and Adverse Events: Race, Inequality, and the Testing of New Pharmaceuticals (New York University Press, 2020).
Polly Mitchell, PhD, is an applied philosopher, thinking and writing about the definition and measurement of health and well-being. She is a post-doctoral research fellow in bioethics and public policy at King's College London, working on the Wellcome Trust-funded project "But why is that better?" which is exploring what applied philosophy and ethics can bring to healthcare quality improvement research and practice.
Matthew Shea, PhD, is the Senior Clinical Ethics Fellow at the UCLA Health Ethics Center. His doctoral dissertation focused on the nature of well-being and the primacy of relationships for human flourishing and the moral life. His current research covers normative ethical theory, bioethics, and disability studies.
Rebecca L. Walker, PhD, is Professor of Social Medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her research investigates topics at the intersection of bioethics and the philosophy of medicine. She is co-editor of Working Virtue: Virtue Ethics and Contemporary Moral Problems (Oxford University Press, 2007); Health Inequalities and Justice: New Conversations Across the Disciplines (University of North Carolina Press, 2016); and The Social Medicine Reader, Volumes 1 and 2, third edition (Duke University Press, 2019).
