ABOUT THE AUTHORS AND EDITORS

TIMO AIRAKSINEN is Professor of Moral and Social at the , . His research interests include philosophy of technology and Hobbes.

VILHJÁLMUR ÁRNASON studied philosophy at The University of Iceland (B.A.) and at Purdue University, USA (M.A., Ph.D). He was an Alexander von Humboldt scholar in Berlin (1993) and visiting fellow at Clare Hall Cambridge (2006). He is Professor of Philosophy and Chair of the Centre for at the University of Iceland. He works mainly in the fields of moral theory, bioethics and political philosophy.

RICHARD ASHCROFT is Professor of Bioethics in the School of Law, Queen Mary University of London, UK. He taught previously in the medical schools of Queen Mary, Imperial College London, and Bristol University. He is a Deputy Editor of the Journal of Medical Ethics. He works mainly in re- search ethics and public health ethics, but has a wide range of philosophical interests in applied ethics.

MARGARET PABST BATTIN is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Adjunct Professor of Internal Medicine in the Division of Medical Ethics and Humanities at the University of Utah, USA. The author of prize-winning short stories and recipient of the University of Utah’s Distinguished Research Award, she has authored, edited, or co-edited nineteen books, including studies of philosophical issues in suicide, a volume of case-puzzles in aesthetics, a text on professional ethics, a study of ethical issues in organized religion, two col- lections of essays on end-of-life issues, entitled The Least Worst Death and Ending Life, and the multi-authored volumes Drugs and Justice: Seeking a Consistent, Coherent, Comprehensive View and The Patient as Victim and Vector: Ethics and Infectious Disease.

REBECCA BENNETT is Senior Lecturer in Bioethics, Centre for Social Eth- ics and Policy, and Institute for Science, Ethics and Innovation, University of Manchester, UK. Rebecca has published widely on diverse issues in bioethics since early 1990s. Her specific research interests include antenatal HIV testing, assisted reproductive technologies, preimplantation genetic diagnosis, genetic testing in pregnancy, arguments surrounding attempts to eradicate disability, responsibility in pregnancy, HIV/AIDS, cloning, stem cell research, ectogene- sis, and selective treatment of infants.

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LISA BORTOLOTTI is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Birmingham, UK. Her main interests are in the philosophy of the cognitive sciences and in applied ethics. She has written articles on philosophical psy- chopathology for journals such as Mind & Language, Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, and Philosophical Psychology. She has contributed to bio- ethical debates on reproductive autonomy and research ethics with articles in the Journal of Medical Ethics, Reproductive Biomedicine Online, Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics, and the Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics. She is the author of An Introduction to the Philosophy of Science (Polity Press, 2008), the editor of Philosophy and Happiness (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009), and the co-editor with Matthew Broome of Psychiatry as Cognitive Neurosci- ence: Philosophical Perspectives (Oxford University Press, 2009).

TOM BULLER is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Alaska Anchorage. His main research interests are in bioethics and neuroeth- ics.

LESLIE P. FRANCIS is Distinguished Professor, Department of Philosophy, and Alfred C Emery Professor of Law at the University of Utah. She works on areas at the intersection of law, legal and ethical theory, bioethics, and disabil- ity. She is particularly interested in issues of distributive justice, partial com- pliance theory, and discrimination. She is co-editor of six volumes, including the Blackwell Guide to Medical Ethics and Americans with Disabilities, co- author of Land Wars: Property, Community and Land Use in an Intercon- nected World, and author of Sexual Harassment: Ethical Issues in Academic Life.

HETA GYLLING is Professor and Head of the Department of Social and Moral Philosophy at the University of Helsinki, Finland. Her fields of exper- tise include ethics and philosophy of law.

SVEN OVE HANSSON is Professor and Head of the Department of Philoso- phy and the History of Technology, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden. He is editor-in-chief of Theoria, one of the directors of the Stockholm Centre for Healthcare Ethics, and board member of the international Society for Philosophy and Technology. He is the author of around 200 papers in in- ternational journals on a wide range of philosophical topics, including ethics, value theory, decision theory, philosophy of risk, philosophy of science and technology, epistemology, and formal logic. His books include A Textbook of Belief Dynamics (Kluwer 1999) and The Structure of Values and Norms (CUP 2001). Homepage: http://www.infra.kth.se/~soh.

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JOHN HARRIS is Lord David Alliance Professor of Bioethics and Research Director in the Institute for Science, Ethics and Innovation at the University of Manchester, UK. He is a Fellow of the United Kingdom Academy of Medical Sciences and a member of the United Kingdom Human Genetics Commission. He holds a number of editorial positions including joint Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Medical Ethics. John Harris is the author or editor of fifteen books and over two hundred papers.

MATTI HÄYRY is Professor of Bioethics and Philosophy of Law at the Cen- tre for Social Ethics and Policy, University of Manchester, UK and Professo- rial Fellow at the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced studies, University of Hel- sinki, Finland. Matti is the author of 12 books including Liberal Utilitarianism and Applied Ethics (Routledge, 1994) and Rationality and the Genetic Chal- lenge (Cambridge University Press, 2009). He holds a number of editorial po- sitions and was the President of the International Association of Bioethics 2007-2009.

SIRKKU HELLSTEN is Adjunct Professor in Social and Moral Philosophy at the University of Helsinki, Finland. She has taught philosophy at the Uni- versities of Helsinki, South Florida, USA, Birmingham, UK, and Dar-Es- Saleem, Tanzania. She currently works as Governance Counsellor at the Em- bassy of Finland in Nairobi, Kenya, continuing also her academic research and teaching activities.

PETER HERISSONE-KELLY is Lecturer in Philosophy in the International School for Communities, Rights, and Inclusion at the University of Central Lancashire, UK. He works mainly on the ethics of new reproductive technolo- gies and on the theoretical foundations of bioethical inquiry.

SØREN HOLM is a cosmopolitan bioethicist. He was born and educated in Denmark but now lives in the UK and divides his academic life between the UK and Norway (and nice and sunny places where kind people invite him to attend workshops). He holds numerous academic degrees, two Chairs and a few editorships.

JAY A. JACOBSON is Professor of Internal Medicine, Emeritus Chief, Division of Medical Ethics and Humanities, and member, Division of Infectious Diseases, University of Utah School of Medicine and Intermountain Medical Center, USA. He is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians and member of its Ethics and Human Rights Committee; Fellow, Infectious Diseases Society of America; and Director, Utah Partnership to Improve End of Life Care. In 2004, he was given the American Medical Association Isaac

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Hayes and John Bell Award for Leadership in Medical Ethics and Professionalism.

VEIKKO LAUNIS is Professor of Medical Ethics and Adjunct Professor of Ethics and at the University of Turku, Finland.

HARRY LESSER was, until his retirement, a Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at Manchester University, and is now a part-time lecturer in Jurisprudence in the School of Law. He has published a number of articles in bioethics, and ed- ited or co-edited three published collections of papers, in particular Ageing, Autonomy and Resources (Ashgate, 1999). He has recently completed editing a fourth collection, for Rodopi, entitled Justice for Older People, and two arti- cles on the right to free movement of labor.

FRANK LEAVITT, whose friends call him by his Hebrew name, Yeruham, was with his wife, June, a homesteader in the forest of Western Massachusetts, an organic gardener and dairy goat raiser in Upstate New York, a mechanic for racing bicyclists, an irrigation worker and general repairman on a kibbutz in the Northern Sinai, a Hebron settler, an Israeli soldier, a glazier, and a plumber. He is also a philosophy graduate of John Carroll, Toronto and Edin- burgh Universities and teaches since 1990 in the Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben Gurion University, Beer Sheva, Israel. Among his teaching subjects are biomedical ethics, philosophy of the health and life sciences, health in the Eastern and , and aging in Eastern and Western Philoso- phy.

PEKKA LOUHIALA is Lecturer in medical ethics at the University of Hel- sinki, Finland. He has degrees both in medicine and philosophy and he also works as a part-time pediatrician in private practice. He has published on vari- ous topics in medical ethics, philosophy of medicine and epistemology. His current academic interests include conceptual and philosophical aspects of is- sues like evidence based medicine, alternative medicine and placebo.

MICHAEL PARKER is Professor of Bioethics and Director of the Ethox Centre at the University of Oxford [www.ethox.org.uk], UK. His main re- search interest is in the ethical and social dimensions of collaborative global health research. He leads the ethics programme of the Malaria Genomic Epi- demiology Network (MalariaGEN) [www.malariagen.net] which carries out genomic research into severe malaria in childhood at 24 sites in 21 countries (funded by the Wellcome Trust and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation through the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health as part of the Grand Challenges in Global Health initiative). He also leads the ethics pro- gramme of the MRC Centre for Genomics and Global Health and is the Princi-

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JUHA RÄIKKÄ, PhD, teaches philosophy at the University of Turku, Finland. Räikkä was nominated as a docent at the University of Turku in 1994. He has worked as a researcher and a teacher since 1988, and as a professor at the department in Philosophy in Turku for seven years. In 2006 he was nomi- nated as a Lecturer in Practical Philosophy. Räikkä is an editor of the Finnish philosophical journal Ajatus. Räikkä’s research interests focus on ethics and political philosophy. He has published papers on issues such as global justice, population ethics, group rights, privacy, autonomy, guilt, self-deception, and conspiracy theory. Räikkä’s recent publications include a book on Privacy (in Finnish: Yksityisyyden filosofia, WSOY, 2007), and he is the Co-Editor of Ge- netic Democracy: Philosophical Perspectives (Springer, 2008).

LARRY REIMER is Professor at the Department of Pathology, University of Utah, USA.

ROSAMOND RHODES, PhD, is Professor of Medical Education and Direc- tor of Bioethics Education at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, Professor of Philosophy at the Graduate Center, CUNY, and Professor of Bioethics and Associate Director of the Union-Mount Sinai Bioethics Program. She writes on a broad array of issues in bioethics. She is co-editor of The Blackwell Guide to Medical Ethics (Blackwell, 2007), Medicine and Social Justice: Essays on the Distribution of Health Care (Oxford, 2002), and Physician Assisted Suicide: Expanding the Debate (Routledge, 1998).

FLOORA RUOKONEN, PhD, is Science Adviser at the Academy of Finland. Her research interests include moral philosophy, the relationship of literature and philosophy, and philosophy of trust.

NIALL SCOTT is Senior Lecturer in Ethics in the International School for Communities, Rights and Inclusions at the University of Central Lancashire, UK. He has worked at UCLAN since 2004 when a certain Prof. Matti Häyry offered him a lectureship in the Centre for Professional Ethics. They have been chums ever since, except when Man City are playing Spurs. Niall’s work cov- ers a multitude of interests and he has published and researched in Bioethics and Political philosophy, Heavy Metal and Philosophy and has spoken interna- tionally on these subjects. He is the course leader for the MA in Bioethics and

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Medical Law at UCLAN and in addition to Bioethics teaches science fiction and philosophy, and film and philosophy. He is the co-author of Altruism (with Jonathan Seglow), secretary for the Association for Social and Legal philoso- phy (ALSP), a member of the ESPMH and the Anarchist Studies Network. Horns Up!

CHARLES B. SMITH, MD, is Emeritus Professor of Medicine at the University of Utah School of Medicine, USA. He previously served as Chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases at the University of Utah School of Medicine, and Associate Dean at the University of Washington School of Medicine. His research has focused on respiratory viral and bacterial infections, and in recent years particularly on ethical issues related to infectious diseases. He is co-editor of Ethics and Infectious Disease.

TUIJA TAKALA is Academy Research Fellow at the Academy of Finland and Adjunct Professor of Social and Moral Philosophy at the University of Helsinki, Finland. She is president-elect of the European Society for Philoso- phy of Medicine and Health Care and holds a number of international editorial positions. Her current research interests lie in the conceptual, methodological and theoretical aspects of philosophical bioethics.

LEILA TOIVIAINEN was born and educated in Finland but has lived over- seas all of her adult life. She trained as a registered nurse and registered mid- wife at the Newcastle General, UK in the seventies and then emigrated first to New Zealand and then on to Australia, where she had a career in neonatal in- tensive care nursing. In the late eighties she started studying philosophy at the University of Tasmania where she obtained her doctorate in 2000. In the same year she became Adjunct Professor at the University of Helsinki, Finland. She has been teaching bioethics since 1994 and her main academic interest is in the philosophy of Nietzsche. Her hobbies are free-range chickens, yoga and surf- ing.

SIMO VEHMAS is Professor of Special Education at the University of Jy- väskylä, Finland. He is specialized in philosophical issues related to disability.

PAOLO VINEIS is Professor and Chair of Environmental Epidemiology at Imperial College London, UK, and Adjunct Professor of Epidemiology at Co- lumbia University, New York, USA. His main field of work is cancer epide- miology, and in particular: (a) environmental causes of cancer; (b) the use of laboratory methods applied to the study of cancer etiology in populations; and (c) gene-environment interactions. Since 1992 he has coordinated the Turin section of the large EPIC study, a prospective study on diet and cancer. He is a member of the Steering Committee of EPIC and currently PI in projects on:

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SIMON WOODS is Senior Lecturer at the Policy, Ethics and Life Sciences Research Centre (PEALS), University of Newcastle, UK where he is the Di- rector of Learning. PEALS is an ethics “Think Tank” involved in research teaching and public engagement on the ethical and social implications of the life sciences. Simon spent 10 years as a clinical cancer nurse and holds bache- lor and doctoral degrees in philosophy. He has conducted empirical and con- ceptual research in bioethics. His current research concerns the ethical and so- cial implications of early human development research, medical nano- technology, and translational research in neuromuscular diseases.

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