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  • Contributors

Courtney S. Campbell is the Hundere Professor of Religion and Culture and the director of the Program in Medical Humanities at Oregon State University, where his teaching and research interests include death and dying.

Helen Stanton Chapple is assistant professor at the Center for Health Policy and Ethics at the Creighton University School of Nursing. She wrote No Place For Dying: Hospitals and the Ideology of Rescue (Left Coast, 2010).

Jessica C. Cox is the Hundere Program Assistant and a second-year graduate student in applied ethics at Oregon State University.

Leonard M. Fleck is professor of philosophy and medical ethics in the Center for Ethics and Humanities in the Life Sciences at Michigan State University. He wrote Just Caring:Health Care Rationing and Democratic Deliberation (Oxford, 2009).

Marian Fontana is the author of A Widow's Walk (Simon & Schuster, 2005) and the forthcoming Middle of the Bed (Simon & Schuster, 2011).

Susan Gilbert is staff writer at The Hastings Center.

Lawrence O. Gostin is the Linda D. and Timothy J. O'Neill Professor of Global Health Law and Faculty Director of the O'Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law at Georgetown University Law Center. His latest book is Public Health Law and Ethics: A Reader (University of California Press, 2nd ed., 2010).

James G. Hodge, Jr., is the Lincoln Professor of Health Law and Ethics and director, Public Health Law and Policy Program, at the Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law, Arizona State University. He is also senior scholar at the Centers for Law and the Public's Health, a collaborative at Johns Hopkins and Georgetown Universities.

Kristi L. Kirschner is a professor of clinical medical humanities and bioethics with a secondary appointment in physical medicine and rehabilitation at the Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University.

Karen J. Maschke is a research scholar at The Hastings Center and the editor of IRB: Ethics & Human Research.

Michelle N. Meyer is an academic fellow in the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School.

Christy A. Rentmeester is assistant professor at the Center for Health Policy and Ethics at Creighton University School of Medicine.

Annette Rid is a research fellow in the Department of Bioethics, National Institutes of Health Clinical Center, and an assistant professor in the Institute of Biomedical Ethics, University of Zurich, Switzerland.

Ronni Sandroff is editorial director, Health and Family, at Consumer Reports. She is responsible for the health coverage across all media products, including the magazine, a monthly health newsletter, and the subscription Web site, www.ConsumerReportsHealth.org.

David Wendler heads the Unit on Vulnerable Populations in the Department of Bioethics, National Institutes of Health Clinical Center, and serves on the IRB for the National Institute on Drug Abuse and the NIH bioethics consultation service. He wrote The Ethics of Pediatric Research (Oxford, 2010).

Shara Yurkiewicz, a Hastings Center editorial intern and 2009 graduate of Yale College, is a first year student at Harvard Medical School. Her research interests include quality of patient care, health cost-effectiveness, and medical education. [End Page 48]

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