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In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:ContributorsMargaret P. Battin is professor of philosophy at the University of Utah. She recently authored Ending Life (Oxford, 2005) and coauthored The Patient as Victim and Vector: Ethics and Infectious Disease (Oxford, forthcoming).Daniel Callahan directs the international program at The Hastings Center. He coauthored Medicine and the Market: Equity v. Choice (Johns Hopkins, 2006).Gary Duhon is associate professor of pediatric critical care at Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, Louisiana.Ellen K. Feder teaches philosophy at American University. She is the author of Family Bonds: Genealogies of Raceand Gender (Oxford, 2007).Rosalind Feldman coordinates the Patient Care Satisfaction Program at a seven-hundred-bed nonprofit nursing home. Previously she was a nurse-psychotherapist and taught nursing courses to university students.Joseph J. Fins is chief of the Division of Medical Ethics and teaches medicine and public health at Weill Cornell Medical College. He wrote A PalliativeEthic of Care: Clinical Wisdom at Life'sEnd (Jones and Bartlett, 2005).Sarah L. Goff is an assistant professor of pediatrics at Tufts University School of Medicine/Baystate Medical Center.Lawrence O. Gostin is associate dean for research and academic programs and the Linda D. and Timothy J. O'Neill Professor of Global Health Law at Georgetown University Law Center.Katrina Karkazis is a senior researcher at the Center for Biomedical Ethics at Stanford University and author of FixingSex: Intersex, Medical Authority, andLived Experience (Duke, 2008).Adrienne M. Martin is assistant professor of philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania and senior fellow at the Penn Center for Bioethics.Kathleen Mazor is a psychometrician and researcher at the Meyers Primary Care Institute and an associate professor of medicine at the University of Massachusetts Medical School.Paul T. Menzel teaches philosophy at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, Washington.Vanessa Meterko studies forensic psychology at John Jay College of Criminal Justice.Farhat Moazam chairs the Center of Biomedical Ethics and Culture, Sindh Institute of Urology and Transplantation, in Karachi, Pakistan. She wrote Bioethics and Organ Transplantation in a Muslim Society (Indiana, 2006).Richard Platt, chair of the Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention at Harvard Medical School, studies post-marketing uses, safety, and effectiveness of drugs, vaccines, and biologic agents.Timothy E. Quill is a professor of medicine, psychiatry, and medical humanities and directs the Center for Ethics, Humanities, and Palliative Care at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry. He wrote Physician-Assisted Dying: The Case for Palliative Care and Patient Choice (Johns Hopkins, 2004).James E. Sabin teaches psychiatry and medical ethics at Harvard Medical School and directs the ethics program at Harvard Pilgrim Health Care.Susan M. Wolf is McKnight Presidential Professor of Law, Medicine and Public Policy, Faegre and Benson Professor of Law, and professor of medicine at the University of Minnesota. She has written extensively on end-of-life care. [End Page 56]Copyright © 2008 The Hastings Center...