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In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:ContributorsArthur L. Caplan is the Emanuel and Robert Hart Professor of Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania and coeditor of The Case of Terri Schiavo: Ethics at the End of Life (Prometheus, 2006).Frank Davidoff edited Annals of Internal Medicine from 1995 to 2001. He is vice president of Physicians for Human Rights and author a book of essays, Who Has Seen a Blood Sugar? Reflections on Medical Education (American College of Physicians, 1996).Denise M. Dudzinski is assistant professor of medical ethics in the department of medical history and ethics, University of Washington School of Medicine. She recently coedited a series of “Cases That Haunt Us” for the Journal of Clinical Ethics.Lawrence O. Gostin is associate dean for research and academic programs and professor of law at Georgetown University, professor of public health at Johns Hopkins University, and director of the Center for Law and the Public’s Health. His books include Public Health Law: Power, Duty, Restraint (University of California Press and Milbank Memorial Fund, 2000).Barry Hoffmaster teaches in the department of philosophy at the University of Western Ontario. He is working with C.A. Hooker on a manuscript that develops a nonformal account of reason for ethics paralleling the ways in which nonformal reason functions in science.Insoo Hyun is assistant professor in the department of bioethics at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. His scholarly interests include stem cell research ethics and crosscultural issues in informed consent.Bruce Jennings is director of the Center for Humans and Nature, a private foundation in New York City, and senior consultant to The Hastings Center.Howard Minkoff is a distinguished professor of obstetrics and gynecology at SUNY Downstate and chair of obstetrics and gynecology at Maimonides Medical Center. He serves on the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists’ Ethics Committee and is the program director of Doctors of the World.Martha Montello is associate professor of history and philosophy of medicine at the University of Kansas School of Medicine. She is coauthor of Stories Matter (Routledge, 2002).Lynn M. Paltrow is an attorney and executive director of National Advocates for Pregnant Women.Dena Rifkin is a nephrology fellow at New England Medical Center and Tufts University. She completed internal medicine residency and chief residency at Yale-New Haven Hospital and Yale University, where she also taught an undergraduate seminar on literature and the doctor-patient relationship.Sarah E. Shannon is an associate professor in the department of behavioral nursing and health systems at the University of Washington School of Nursing. Her research focuses on end of life decision-making, communication with families, interdisciplinary conflict around ethical issues, and disclosure of medical errors by nurses.Rosemarie Tong is distinguished professor of healthcare ethics in the philosophy department and director of the Center for Professional and Applied Ethics at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte. Her most recent book is New Perspectives in Health Care Ethics: A Twenty-First Century Vision (Prentice Hall, forthcoming). [End Page 48]Copyright © 2006 The Hastings Center...