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An Anthology on Freedom of Scientific Research Baron, Charles H., Professor of Law Emeritus. "Contributors." Scientific Freedom: An Anthology on Freedom of Scientific Research. Ed. Simona Giordano, John Coggon and Marco Cappato. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2012. ix–xvi. Science, Ethics and Society. Bloomsbury Collections. Web. 27 Sep. 2021. <>. Downloaded from Bloomsbury Collections, www.bloomsburycollections.com, 27 September 2021, 19:44 UTC. Copyright © Simona Giordano, John Coggon and Marco Cappato 2012. You may share this work for non-commercial purposes only, provided you give attribution to the copyright holder and the publisher, and provide a link to the Creative Commons licence. Contributors Charles H. Baron, Professor of Law Emeritus, Boston College Law School. Professor Baron has taught, lectured, and done research in the fi elds of Law and Bioethics and Constitutional Law at several schools in the United States and abroad. He is the author of many articles in those fi elds, as well as the author of Droit Constitutionnel et Bioéthique: L’Éxperience Américaine (Paris: Economica, 1997) and co-editor of The Use, Nonuse, Misuse of Social Science Research in the Courts (Cambridge: Abt Books, 1980). Emma Bonino, Minister for International Trade and European Affairs of the Italian government and Leader of the Transnational Radical Party. Ms Bonino was elected seven times to the Italian Parliament and four times to the European Parliament in Strasburg. She also served in Brussels as European Commissioner, responsible for Health & Consumer Protection, Fisheries and Humanitarian Affairs. Ms Bonino has represented Italy in intergovernmental conferences and the European Union for electoral observers’ missions. Sensible to the freedom and determination of women, in 1975 she funded CISA, the information centre for abortion, and she has been the protagonist of the referendum campaign which has introduced, in Italy, legalized abortion. She is among the founders of the ONG’s ‘Non c’è Pace senza Giustizia ’ and ‘Nessuno Tocchi Caino ’. In 1997 she promoted the international campaign ‘Un fi ore per le Donne di Kabul ’ against women discrimination in Afghanistan. She is also among the promoters of the international campaign for the elimination of genital mutilation (MGF) and for the ratifi cation of the Maputo protocol of the African Union countries. Michael Boylan , Professor of Philosophy, Marymount University, Arlington, Virginia, USA. Professor Boylan received his PhD from the University of Chicago. He is professor of philosophy at Marymount University. Boylan is the author or editor of twenty-fi ve books and 100 articles ranging from ethics and social/ political philosophy to the history and philosophy of science, and literature. His recent books include: Morality and Global Justice (2011), Philosophy: An Innovative Introduction (with Charles Johnson, 2010), The Good, The True, and the Beautiful (2008), A Just Society (2004), and Genetic Engineering (with Kevin E. Brown, 2002). He was a fellow at the Center for American Progress (2007–2009) and has lectured in nine countries around the world. ix x CONTRIBUTORS Marco Cappato is the Secretary of the Luca Coscioni Association for Freedom of Scientifi c Research since 2004 and former Member of the European Parliament (MEP), within the ALDE Group (Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe). Until July 2009, end of the former European legislature, he was Member of the Foreign Affairs, the Civil Liberties and Human Rights Committees. He was also Vice-President of the European Parliament Delegation for the Relations with the Mashrek Countries and EP Rapporteur on the Human Rights in the World for 2007. From June 1999 until July 2004 he had also served as MEP for the Lista Bonino . During his fi rst term of offi ce as MEP, Marco Cappato principally focused on the issue of ‘digital liberties’. He was Rapporteur for the Directive on Privacy in electronic Communications. Thanks to his work against proposals for a general surveillance on electronic communications he won the ‘European of the Year’ award from the weekly newspaper on European affairs European Voice . Cappato conceded the €5,000 award to the Luca Coscioni Association. Furthermore, he was nominated for the ‘Politician of the Year’ Award by the American magazine ‘Wired’. He was also Rapporteur on the decision concerning ‘attacks on the information systems’ and the ‘re-use of information detained by public administrations’. In 1997 and 1998 he was the head of the Transnational Radical Party at the United Nations in New York, where he engaged above all in the campaign for the institution of the International Criminal Court. From March to November 2002 he was President of the Board of the Transnational Radical Party. As the Secretary of the Luca Coscioni Association, he is responsible for the Operational Secretariat of the World Congress for Freedom of Scientifi c Research. John Coggon , LLB (University of Sussex), PhD (Cardiff University). Research Fellow in Interdisciplinary Bioethics, Institute for Science, Ethics, and Innovation, School of Law, University of Manchester. John Coggon is a research fellow at the Institute for Science, Ethics, and Innovation, University of Manchester. His research focuses on issues in health law and ethics, particularly in relation to public health. He is author of the book What Makes Health Public? (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012). Gilberto Corbellini , Professor of Bioethics and History of Medicine and Bioethics, Sapienza University of Rome. Gilberto Corbellini is Professor of Bioethics and History of Medicine at the Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy of Sapienza University of Rome. Among his publications are Le grammatiche del vivente. Una storia della biologia e della medicina molecolare (Laterza 1997 e 1999), EBM. Medicina basata sull’evoluzione (Laterza, 2007), La razionalità negata. Psichiatria e antipsichiatria in Italia (con Giovanni Jervis, Bollati Boringhieri 2008) and CONTRIBUTORS xi Perché gli scienziati non sono pericolosi. Scienza, etica e politica (Longanesi, 2009). In 2007 he co-edited with P. Donghi and M. Massarenti, Biblioetica (Einaudi) then staged by Luca Ronconi. A forthcoming book, entitled Science and democracy. A naturalistic approach will be published by Einaudi in 2011. He is co-director of the cultural-scientifi c journal ‘Darwin’ and he writes for the Sunday cultural supplement of Il Sole 24 Ore . Sarah Devaney , PhD, Lecturer in Law, University of Manchester. Dr Devaney obtained her PhD entitled The Regulation of Innovation: Legal and Ethical Issues in Stem Cell Research in 2010. She has been exploring the issue of regulation of stem cell research for a number of years, focusing on the property status of the human tissues used and the regulatory approaches which are best suited to both facilitate and appropriately control such work. In this area she has published the following: ‘Regulate to Innovate: Principles-Based Regulation of Stem Cell Research’ (2011) Medical Law International 11(1) (forthcoming). ‘Tissue Providers for Stem Cell Research: The Dispossessed’, (2010) Law, Innovation and Technology , 2(2) 165–192. ‘Breaches in Good Regulatory Practice – the HFEA Policy on Compensated Egg Sharing for Stem Cell Research’ Clinical Ethics 3(1) (2008) 20–24. ‘Achieving Consensus on International Ethical Oversight of Stem Cell Research’ (2007) Asian Journal of WTO & International Health Law and Policy 2: 457–472. Finally, with Leanne Bell ‘The Future Regulation of Stem Cells in the UK’ (2007) Journal of Medical Ethics (editorial) 33: 621–622. Carl Djerassi , writer and professor emeritus of chemistry at Stanford University. Author of over 1,200 scientifi c publications and seven monographs, Djerassi has also written fi ve novels (Cantor’s Dilemma; The Bourbaki Gambit; Marx, deceased; Menachem’s Seed; NO), short stories (The Futurist and Other Stories ), poetry ( A Diary of Pique ), two autobiographies (Steroids Made It Possible; The Pill, Pygmy Chimps, and Degas’ Horse ), a memoir (This Man’s Pill ), a docudrama (Four Jews on Parnassus ) and eight plays (An Immaculate Misconception , Oxygen (with Roald Hoffmann), Calculus, Ego, Phallacy, Taboos, Foreplay, and Insuffi ciency ). A member of the National Academy of Sciences, the Royal Society, the Leopoldina, and other foreign academies, he is the only American chemist to have been awarded both the National Medal of Science (for the fi rst synthesis of a steroid oral contraceptive) and the National Medal of Technology. He is the recipient of 27 hon. doctorates and numerous honors, among them the fi rst Wolf Prize in Chemistry (1978), the American Chemical Society’s Priestley Medal (1992), the “Österreichische Ehrenkreuz für Wissenschaft und Kunst ” (1999), the “Grosse Verdienstkreuz der Bundesrepublik Deutschland ” (2003), the Erasmus Medal of the Academia Europeae (2003), the Serono Prize for Literature (Rome, 2005) and the Great Silver Decoration for Services to the Republic of Austria (2008). In 2005, the xii CONTRIBUTORS Austrian Post Offi ce issued a stamp in his honor. He is the founder of the Djerassi Resident Artists Program near Woodside, California, which since its inception has provided residencies and studio space for over 2,000 artists in the visual arts, literature, choreography, and music. (There is a website about Carl Djerassi’s writing at http://www.djerassi.com.) Jim Falk, Professorial Fellow, The University of Melbourne. Jim Falk is a Professorial Fellow at the University of Melbourne, a Visting Professor to the United Nations University
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