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In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:ContributorsBette-Jane Crigger is a linguistic anthropologist and former editor of the Hastings Center Report and IRB: Ethics & Human Research. Currently, she serves as chief of the ethics communications service with the National Center for Ethics in Health Care, Veterans Health Administration. She also serves as research staff to VHA’s National Ethics Committee.Joseph J. Fins is chief of the division of medical ethics at Weill Medical College of Cornell University, where he also serves as professor of medicine, public health, and medicine in psychiatry. Current scholarly interests include ethical issues at the end of life and palliative care, research ethics in neurology and psychiatry, medical education, and methods of ethics case consultation. He is the author of A Palliative Ethic of Care: Clinical Wisdom at Life’s End (Jones and Bartlett, forthcoming).Lawrence O. Gostin is John Carroll Research Professor at Georgetown University, professor of public health at Johns Hopkins University, and director of the Center for Law and the Public’s Health. His latest book is The AIDS Pandemic: Complacency, Injustice, and Unfulfilled Expectations (University of North Carolina Press, 2004).David N. Hoffman is vice president for ethics and compliance and general counsel at Wyckoff Heights Medical Center in Brooklyn, New York, where he directs the ethics consultation service. He is an adjunct professor of law at Cardozo Law School and lecturer in bioethics in the department of psychiatry at Columbia University. Prior to assuming the position of general counsel, he was in private practice defending hospitals and physicians in medical malpractice litigation and advising hospitals on bioethical and regulatory issues.Rebecca Kukla is associate professor of philosophy at Carleton University and Greenwall Fellow in Bioethics and Health Policy and visiting associate professor of philosophy at Johns Hopkins University. She is the author of Mass Hysteria: Fixing the Boundaries of Mothers’ Bodies (Rowman and Little-field, forthcoming).Paul Lauritzen is director of the program in applied ethics at John Carroll University in Cleveland. In addition to his work on the ethics of stem cell research, he is engaged with a project examining the use of humanistic materials in human rights education.Jon O. Neher is assistant director for education at the Family Medicine Residency Program at Valley Medical Center in Renton, Washington; clinical professor of family medicine at the University of Washington, Seattle; and assistant editor for the Family Practice Inquiries Network.Gloria Ramsey is director of the program in bioethics at the Steinhardt School of Education, Division of Nursing, at New York University. She was a member of the American Nurses Association Code of Ethics Taskforce and is a board member of the New York metropolitan chapter of the American Association of Nurse Attorneys.Jacqueline Slomka is assistant professor of health promotion and behavioral sciences at the University of Texas School of Public Health at Houston. She currently studies older adults’ perceptions of consent and participation in research. [End Page 48]Copyright © 2005 The Hastings Center...