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In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:ContributorsYali Cong is professor in the medical ethics program at Peking University Health Science Center, in Beijing, China. Her research interests include topics in clinical ethics, research ethics, and Chinese bioethics.Jack Coulehan is a general internist and chair of the ethics case consultation service at Stony Brook University Hospital. Among his academic interests are the patient-clinician relationship and the healing power of poetry. His most recent books include Medicine Stone: Poems (Fithian Press, 2002), Chekhov’s Doctors: A Collection of Chekhov’s Medical Tales (Kent State University Press, 2003), and the 5th edition of The Medical Interview: Mastering Skills for Clinical Practice, with Marian Block (F.A. Davis, forthcoming).James Dwyer is the associate director of education at the Center for Bioethics and Humanities, at SUNY Upstate Medical University, in Syracuse, New York. His work focuses on health, justice, and democracy.Holly K. Fernandez is a second-year law student at the University of Pennsylvania, where she is concurrently studying for her Master’s in Bioethics. Her academic interests include reproductive and research ethics, and she is presently working on articles concerning the tort liability of institutional review board members and the constitutional implications of President Bush’s embryonic stem cell research policy.Arthur W. Frank is professor of sociology at the University of Calgary. His most recent book is The Renewal of Generosity: Illness, Medicine, and How to Live (University of Chicago, 2004).Linying Hu is assistant professor in the medical ethics program at Peking University Health Science Center, in Beijing, China. Her research interests include euthanasia, justice, and research ethics.Alex John London is assistant professor of philosophy at Carnegie Mellon University. He is co-editor of the 6th edition of Ethical Issues in Modern Medicine (McGraw Hill, 2002), and his research focuses primarily on the ethics of human subjects research and methodology in theoretical and applied ethics.Robert Macauley is interim medical director of clinical ethics at Fletcher Allen Health Care in Burlington, Vermont, as well as clinical assistant professor of pediatrics at the University of Vermont College of Medicine.Jonathan D. Moreno is the Emily Davie and Joseph S. Kornfeld Professor and director of the Center for Biomedical Ethics at the University of Virginia. He is immediate past president of the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities.David B. Resnik is a bioethicist at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health. He has published four books and over one hundred articles on ethical and philosophical issues in science and medicine. His current research interests focus on the impact of financial interests on the conduct of scientific research.Carl Schneider is Chauncey Stillman Professor of Law and professor of internal medicine at the University of Michigan. He is the co-author of a recent casebook on bioethics and the law. [End Page 48]Copyright © 2005 The Hastings Center...