Akira Akabayashi, M.D., Ph.D., is Professor in the Department of Biomedical Ethics at the School of Health Science and Nursing, University of Tokyo Graduate School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan, and Professor at the School of Public Health, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan.

Rachel A. Ankeny, Ph.D., is Director of the Unit for History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Sydney, Carslaw, Australia.

Bette Anton, M.L.S., is Head Librarian of the Optometry Library and Health Sciences Information Service. This library serves the University of California at Berkeley–University of California at San Francisco Joint Medical Program and the University of California at Berkeley School of Optometry.

Ana Borovečki, M.D., is completing a Ph.D. at Zagreb Medical School in Croatia, where she is currently working as a Research Assistant in the School of Public Health.

Alister Browne, Ph.D., is Chair of the Department of Philosophy at Langara College, Ethics Consultant at the Vancouver Hospital and Health Sciences Centre, and Associate Clinical Professor in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of British Columbia, Canada.

Debora Diniz, Ph.D., is Director of ANIS, Institute of Bioethics, Human Rights, and Gender, and Professor of Bioethics at Rio de Janeiro State University, Brasilia, Brazil.

Elisa J. Gordon, Ph.D., is Assistant Professor of Bioethics and Health Policy and Assistant Director of Research at the Neiswanger Institute for Bioethics and Health Policy at the Stritch School of Medicine, Loyola University of Chicago, Illinois.

Matti Häyry, Ph.D., is Professor of Moral Philosophy and Head of Centre for Professional Ethics at the University of Central Lancashire, United Kingdom. His main research interests include theories of moral and political philosophy, and the concepts used in bioethics.

Steve Heilig, M.P.H., is Director of Public Health and Education at the San Francisco Medical Society, Director of the Bay Area Network of Ethics Committees, San Francisco, California, and co-Editor of the Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics.

Peter Herissone-Kelly, B.A., B.Phil., is Research Assistant at the Centre for Professional Ethics at the University of Central Lancashire, Preston, United Kingdom. With a background in philosophical logic and metaphysics, his current research interests focus on the theoretical basis of bioethical inquiry.

Søren Holm, M.D., Ph.D., Dr.Med.Sci., is Professorial Fellow in Bioethics at Cardiff University, United Kingdom, and Professor of Medical Ethics, University of Oslo, Norway.

Kenneth V. Iserson, M.D., M.B.A., is Professor of Surgery (Emergency Medicine), Director of the Program in Bioethics, and Chair of the Bioethics Committee at the University of Arizona College of Medicine, Tucson.

Donald Joralemon, Ph.D., is Professor of Anthropology at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts.

Greg Loeben, Ph.D., is the Book Review Editor for CQ and Faculty Coordinator of the Graduate Program in Bioethics at Midwestern University, Glendale, Arizona,

Pekka Louhiala, D.Med.Sci., Ph.D., is University Lecturer (Medical Ethics), Department of Public Health, University of Helsinki, Finland, and a part-time pediatrician in private practice. His current interests include issues in pediatric research ethics.

Florencia Luna, Ph.D., is President of the International Association of Bioethics, Editor of the journal Perspectivas Bioethicas, Adjunct Researcher with the Argentinian Research Council (CONICET), and Coordinator of the Bioethics Area of Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO), an organization created by UNESCO to promote the understanding and development of the social sciences among participating countries in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Timothy F. Murphy, Ph.D., is Professor of Philosophy in the Biomedical Sciences at the University of Illinois College of Medicine, Chicago.

Noriko Nagao, M.P.H., R.N., is Research Assistant in the Department of Biomedical Ethics at the University of Tokyo Graduate School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan, and a Ph.D. candidate at Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan.

Stjepan Orešković, Ph.D., is Director of the Andrija štampar School of Public Health and the Chair of the Department of Medical Sociology and Health Economics at the School of Medicine of Zagreb, Croatia.

Kadri Simm, M.A., is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Tartu, Estonia.

Brian T. Slingsby, B.A., is a U.S.-Japan Ambassadorial Scholar studying cross-cultural biomedical ethics in the Graduate Program at the Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan.

Margit Sutrop, Ph.D., is Professor and Chair of Practical Philosophy and Head of the Center for Ethics at the University of Tartu, Estonia.

Sharon Sytsma, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, and has served as Chair of the Ethics Subcommittee of the North America Task Force on Intersexuality.

Tuija Takala, Ph.D., is Lecturer in Bioethics at the Centre for Social Ethics in Policy, University of Manchester, United Kingdom, and Docent of Practical Philosophy in the Department of Moral and Social Philosophy, University of Helsinki, Finland. Her main research interest lies in the philosophical analysis of bioethical concepts.

Henk ten Have, M.D., Ph.D., is Professor of Medical Ethics in the University Medical Centre Nijmegen, the Netherlands, and Director of the Division of Ethics of Science and Technology at UNESCO, Paris, France.