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In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:ContributorsNicholas Agar is a philosopher at Victoria University of Wellington primarily interested in the ethical implications of biotechnology.Jacob M. Appel, recently adjunct assistant professor of community health at Brown University and a visiting instructor at Columbia University, currently holds a fellowship from the Sherwood Anderson Foundation. He practices law in New York and Rhode Island.Frances R. Batzer is clinical professor of obstetrics and gynecology in the division of reproductive endocrinology at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital and maintains a private practice in Philadelphia. Her research interests include reproductive endocrinology, infertility, and menopause.Arthur L. Caplan is the Emanuel and Robert Hart Professor of Bioethics and chair of the department of medical ethics at the University of Pennsylvania. His most recent book is Smart Mice, Not So Smart People (Rowman & Littlefield, 2006).Kathy Davis is senior researcher at the Research Institute of History and Culture (OGC) at Utrecht University in The Netherlands. She recently wrote The Making of Our Bodies, Ourselves: How Feminism Travels Across Borders (Duke, 2007).Rebecca Dresser is a professor in the law and medical schools of Washington University in St. Louis, where she teaches courses on policy issues in medicine and research. Since 2002, she has been a member of the President’s Council on Bioethics.Franklin G. Miller works in the department of clinical bioethics at the National Institutes of Health. His current research focuses mainly on ethical issues in clinical research.Jon O. Neher is associate director of the Valley Medical Center’s Family Medicine Residency in Renton, Washington, and clinical professor of family medicine at the University of Washington in Seattle. His research interests are medicine and literature.Constance Perry is an associate professor in the health and society program of the College of Nursing and Health Professions at Drexel University. Her research interests include autonomy, personhood, and ethical issues in pregnancy, reproduction, and animal experimentation.Lauren A. Plante is associate professor of both obstetrics/gynecology and anesthesiology at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia. Her clinical practice focuses on maternal-fetal medicine, high-risk pregnancy, and the interface between obstetrics and critical care medicine.Joseph Saloma is a graduate student in bioethics and health policy at Loyola University in Chicago.Michael J. Selgelid is a senior research fellow in the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics and the Menzies Centre for Health Policy at the Australian National University, where he is also a founding and executive board member of the National Centre for Biosecurity. He recently coedited Ethics and Infectious Disease (Blackwell, 2006).Alan Wertheimer is research scholar in the department of clinical bioethics, National Institutes of Health, and professor emeritus of political science, University of Vermont. He wrote Coercion (Princeton, 1988), Exploitation (Princeton, 1996), and Consent to Sexual Relations (Cambridge, 2003) and is currently working on a book on research ethics. [End Page 48]Copyright © 2007 The Hastings Center...