ABOUT THE AUTHORS AND EDITORS TIMO AIRAKSINEN is Professor of Moral and Social Philosophy at the University of Helsinki, Finland. 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 Ethics 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. Tuija Takala, Peter Herissone-Kelly, and Søren Holm - 9789042027404 Downloaded from Brill.com09/27/2021 02:53:15PM via free access 248 About the Authors and Editors 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. Tuija Takala, Peter Herissone-Kelly, and Søren Holm - 9789042027404 Downloaded from Brill.com09/27/2021 02:53:15PM via free access About the Authors and Editors 249 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 Tuija Takala, Peter Herissone-Kelly, and Søren Holm - 9789042027404 Downloaded from Brill.com09/27/2021 02:53:15PM via free access 250 About the Authors and Editors 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 Social Philosophy 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 Western philosophy, 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