Contributors

PASCAL BORRY holds master degrees in languages and religious studies and a PhD in social health sciences. He joined the Centre for Biomedical Ethics and Law (K.U.Leuven, Belgium) in 2002 as part of a research project on the relationship between empirical and normative approaches in bioethics. His current research is focused on the ethical, legal and social aspects of genetics. He has published on genetic testing in children and adolescents, biobanking and direct-to-consumer genetic testing. In 2006, he was awarded the triennial ‘Professor Roger Borghgraef’ prize for biomedical ethics for his research publications. He has spent time as a visiting scholar at Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland, Ohio, US), the University of Montréal and McGill University (Canada). He is also programme coordinator of the (Erasmus Mundus) Master of Bioethics. [email protected]

ANNEMIE DILLEN is Assistant Professor of Pastoral Theology at the Faculty of Theology, K.U.Leuven, Belgium. She is chair of the Academic Centre for Practical Theology, K.U.Leuven (www.theopraxis.eu) and chair of the interdiocesan council for family pastoral care in Flanders (Belgium). Her research interests include family ethics, children and theology, religious education, pastoral care. Some recent publications: (ed.) When ‘Love’ Strikes. Social Sciences, Ethics and Theology on Family Violence. Leuven: Peeters, 2009; “Children are the Future… and the Present. Challenging Pastoral Practices with Children.” Counseling et spiritualité. Counselling and Spirituality, 28 (2009): 129-148; with D. Pollefeyt (eds.). Children’s Voices. Children’s Perspectives in Ethics, Theology and Religious Education. Leuven: Peeters, 2010. [email protected]

VEERLE DRAULANS defended her PhD at the K.U.Leuven (Belgium). She is Assistant Professor of Ethics at the Department for Religious Studies Tilburg University and at the Faculty of Social Sciences in the master’s programme ‘Organisation of Cultural Diversity’. She is also Associate Professor of gender studies at the K.U.Leuven, where her research focuses on ‘gender and leadership’, ‘gender and science’, and on ‘values and religion in Europe’. She is a member of the European Values Study

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(EVS) research team, a large-scale empirical research programme. She is a member of the Belgian Advisory Committee on Bio-ethics, the Scientific Board of Kadoc, Documentation and Research Center for Religion, Culture and Society (Leuven) and the Board of Governors of Emmaus (Christian healthcare organisations). [email protected], [email protected]

CHRIS GASTMANS is Professor of Medical Ethics at the K.U.Leuven, Faculty of Medicine, Centre for Biomedical Ethics and Law, Belgium. His research and teaching focuses on the field of end-of-life ethics, elderly care ethics, nursing ethics and empirical ethics. He was appointed secretary general of the European Association of Centres for Medical Ethics (EACME) in 2002. [email protected]

CARLO LEGET has a PhD in theology (1997) from the Catholic Theological University at Utrecht, where he taught moral theology until 2002. He worked from 2002-2008 as Associate Professor of Medical Ethics at the Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre. Since 2009 he has been Associate Professor of the Ethics of Care at Tilburg University, Faculty of Humanities, Department of Religious Studies and Theology. The Ethics of Care and spirituality are his main areas of professional activity. He has specialized in subjects such as palliative care, the ethics of end-of-life questions, the art of living and dying, and the place of spirituality in palliative care. [email protected]

A.W. (BERT) MUSSCHENGA is Professor of Philosophical Ethics at the VU Uni- versiteit, Amsterdam. From 1999-2003, he served as director of the Netherlands School for Research in Practical Philosophy. He is editor-in-chief of Ethical Theory and Moral Practice. His dissertation (1979) combined meta-ethical reflection upon the concept of morality with sociological, sociobiological and anthropological findings about internal and environmental factors that make human morality both necessary and possible. He has published many articles and edited many volumes in Dutch and in English on both practical ethical topics and on more fundamental theoretical questions such as the relationship between religion and morality, moral reasoning, personal and moral identity. He has published monographs on quality of life and on integrity. In recent years he has published a number of articles on the relationship between psychological intuitive moral judgements and epistemological intuitions. [email protected]

WIN TADD is a senior research fellow at Cesagen, School of Social Sciences at Cardiff University. She is a graduate of the University of East Anglia, where she gained a BEd (Hons) before obtaining a doctorate in Applied Ethics from Cardiff University.

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She spent many years as a nurse and senior lecturer in the UK and Australia and was made an International Fellow of the Hastings Centre, New York. Her research interests focus on the ethical and social aspects of ageing and care of older people. She served as principle researcher on a number of large European studies, including those on ethical codes in nursing, virtues and chronic illness and Information Needs of Older Disabled People. She co-ordinated the extensive EU funded project, Dignity and Older Europeans and is currently chief investigator working on two large grants from the UK Department of Health exploring ‘Dignity in the care of older people in acute NHS Trusts’ and another ‘Promoting excellence in care homes’. Win chairs the Welsh Assembly Government’s National Coordinating Group on Dignity in Care and has been involved in recent campaigns of the British Geriatrics Society concerning dignity and older adults. [email protected]

A.B. TIMMERMAN, M.Sc., M.A., S.T.L., graduated in physics and theology and worked as pastoral worker in two parishes of the Archdiocese of Utrecht. He is a doctoral candidate of Tilburg School of Theology and a member of the research group “Care and Contested Coherence” of Tilburg University. He currently works as a pastoral worker in the parishes of Amersfoort. Recent publications include: “‘Het is geen krantenpraat, het is geloofspraat’: De Heilige Schrift in de praktijk van persoonlijk pastoraat van Rooms-Katholieke parochiepastores” [Holy Scripture in the Practice of Personal Pastoral Care of Roman Catholic Parish Ministers]. In Een roos in de lente: Theologisch Palet van de FKT. Opstellen aangeboden aan Panc Beentjes. Edited by Harm van Grol and Piet van Midden, Utrecht 2009. His PhD dissertation will appear in 2010. [email protected]

JOHANNES J.M. VAN DELDEN is Professor of Medical Ethics at the Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Center Utrecht, the Netherlands. He also works as a physician in a nursing home in the Netherlands. [email protected]

LINUS VANLAERE holds a master’s degree in religious studies and theology. He obtained his PhD in theology in 2006 with a study of the ethical and philosophical foundations of care ethics. This research also contained an analysis, based on care ethics, of the clinical issues surrounding suicide among older persons (aged over 75). The project was funded by the National Fund for Scientific Research Flanders (FWO) and was realised at the Centre for Biomedical Ethics and Law under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Chris Gastmans. Since finishing his PhD, Linus has been working as ‘Clinical ethicist’ for GVO Kortrijk, a collaboration of 8 nursing homes in the west of Flanders (www.gvo.be). He is also part-time scientific researcher at

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sTimul: care ethics lab, a collaborative project between the education and care sectors. The sTimul lab offers several educational tools, among which are empathy sessions, workshops, and learning trajectories. [email protected]

GHISLAINE J.M.W. VAN THIEL is Assistant Professor at the Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care. University Medical Center Utrecht, the Netherlands. [email protected]

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