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In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:ContributorsKalman Applbaum teaches medical anthropology and global studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He is the author of The Marketing Era: From Professional Practice to Global Provisioning (Routledge, 2004) and is currently working on a book on pharmaceutical marketing and the competition for global health care.Courtney S. Campbell is the Hundere Professor of Religion and Culture at Oregon State University, where his research interests include assessments of physician-assisted suicide laws, bioethics pedagogy, comparative religious ethics, and the implications of genetic and pharmacological enhancements for religious and cultural traditions and values.Joseph P. DeMarco is professor emeritus of philosophy at the Cleveland State University. He is author or coauthor of five books in ethics and most recently is a coauthor of a multimedia CD-ROM, Law and Bioethics (Seed Publishing, 2006).Paul J. Ford is a clinical ethicist at Cleveland Clinic. His primary interests are in neurosurgical ethics and ethics consultation. He recently coedited a book entitled Complex Ethics Consultations: Cases That Haunt Us (Cambridge, 2008).John Hardwig is a professor and heads the philosophy department at the University of Tennessee. He is also the author of Is There a Duty to Die? and Other Essays in Bioethics (Routledge, 2000).Lynn A. Jansen is Acting Sisters of Charity Chair in Ethics at the John J. Conley Department of Ethics, St. Vincent's Manhattan, and associate professor of medicine at New York Medical College.Elizabeth A. Kitsis is director of bioethics education at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and is associated with the Montefiore-Einstein Center for Bioethics. She is also a former vice-president at Pfizer.Mark R. Mercurio is associate professor of pediatrics at the Yale School of Medicine, director of the Yale Pediatric Ethics Program, associate director of the Yale Interdisciplinary Bioethics Center, and an attending neonatologist at Yale-New Haven Children's Hospital.Carl E. Schneider is Chauncey Still-man Professor of Law and Professor of Internal Medicine at the University of Michigan and coauthor of a casebook on the law of bioethics.Rebecca Stangl is assistant professor of philosophy at the University of Virginia. Her current research interests are in virtue theory, bioethics, and ancient philosophy. [End Page 48]Copyright © 2009 The Hastings Center...