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  • Contributors

Nancy Berlinger is deputy director and research scholar at The Hastings Center and the author of After Harm: Medical Error and the Ethics of Forgiveness (Johns Hopkins, 2005). She volunteers on the chaplaincy service at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.

Wendy Cadge is assistant professor of sociology at Brandeis University, a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, and author of Heartwood: The First Generation of Theravada Buddhism in America (University of Chicago, 2005).

Eric G. Campbell is associate professor in medicine at Harvard Medical School and the Institute for Health Policy at Massachusetts General Hospital. He has published widely on the topic of relationships between industry and academics in life science research.

Guang-Shing Cheng is pursuing biomedical research on influenza and lung injury at the University of Pennsylvania. Her interests include infectious lung diseases and end-of-life issues.

Raymond de Vries is a member of the Bioethics Program, the Department of Medical Education, and the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Medical School, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

Dayle B. DeLancey is assistant professor of the history of medicine at the Institute for the Medical Humanities at the University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston.

Rebecca Dresser is Daniel Noyes Kirby Professor of Law and professor of ethics in medicine at Washington University in St. Louis. She has taught and written about issues in criminal law, including genetic determinism.

Susan Dorr Goold is an associate professor of internal medicine and director of the Bioethics Program at the University of Michigan Medical School. She studies the allocation of scarce health care resources, especially the perspectives of patients and citizens.

Martha R. Jacobs is managing editor of PlainViews, an e-newsletter for chaplains and other spiritual care providers sponsored by HealthCare Chaplaincy. She wrote A Clergy Guide to End-of-Life Care (Pilgrim Press, forthcoming).

Franklin G. Miller works in the Department of Bioethics at the National Institutes of Health. His current research focuses on ethical issues in clinical research and end-of-life decisions.

Margaret E. Mohrmann is professor of bioethics and pediatrics at the University of Virginia, where she directs the Medical Center's programs in bioethics and holds a joint appointment in religious studies.

Christy A. Rentmeester is assistant professor at the Center for Health Policy and Ethics at Creighton University School of Medicine. Her recent work focuses on justice and ethics in mental health and their intersection with racial and ethnic health care inequalities.

Martin L. Smith is director of clinical ethics at the Cleveland Clinic. His interests include ethics consultation, ethics committees, end-of-life issues, and religion and bioethics.

Robert D. Truog teaches medical ethics and pediatric critical care as a professor at Harvard Medical School and Children's Hospital Boston. He is working with the Institute for Professionalism and Ethical Practice on innovative approaches to teach ethics within the clinician-patient relationship.

Benjamin S. Wilfond directs the Treuman Katz Center for Pediatric Bioethics at Seattle Children's Center and is professor of pediatrics at the University of Washington. His interests focus on research ethics, particularly as it relates to pediatrics and genetics. [End Page 52]

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