Notes on Contributors
Lori B. Andrews is a graduate of Yale Law School and is currently a Research Fellow at the American Bar Foundation and a Senior Scholar at the Center for Clinical Medical Ethics at the University of Chicago. She has taught health law at the University of Chicago School of Law and at the University of Chicago Business School. She has written extensively on genetics, reproductive technologies, and other aspects of medical law. She has been an advisor to various federal health and scientific agencies. She is co-chair of the American Bar Association Task Force on Reproductive and Genetic Technologies.
George J. Annas is Edward R. Utley Professor of Law and Medicine at the Boston University Schools of Medicine and Public Health. He is also the Director of the Law, Medicine, and Ethics Program at Boston University School of Public Health. He is the author of more than 200 articles and the author or editor of a number of books on the rights of patients, genetics and the law, informed consent, the rights of health care professionals, reproductive genetics, and most recently, The Nazi Doctors and the Nuremberg Code: Human Rights in Human Experimentation (Oxford, 1992).
Arthur Caplan is Director of the Center for Biomedical Ethics, as well as professor of philosophy and professor of surgery at the University of Minnesota. He is the author or editor of fifteen books, including If I Were a Rich Man I Could Buy a Pancreas (Indiana, 1992), Which Babies Shall Live? (Humana, 1985), The Sociobiology Debate (Harper & Row, 1978), Concepts of Health and Disease (Addison-Wesley, 1981), and In Search of Equity (Plenum, 1983). He has written widely in the fields of philosophy, medicine, and the biological sciences; is a frequent commentator in the media; and has served as a consultant to a wide range of governmental agencies.
Norman Daniels, Professor and Chair of the Tufts University Philosophy Department, has written widely in the philosophy of science, ethics, political and social philosophy, and medical ethics. His most recent books include Just Health Care (Cambridge, 1985) and Am I My Parents' Keeper: An Essay on Justice between the Young and the Old (Oxford, 1988). He is currently receiving support from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the National Library of Medicine to write a book on justice and AIDS policy choices.
Leonard M. Fleck is an Associate Professor in the Philosophy Department and Center for Humanities in the Life Sciences at Michigan State University. He has published over thirty-five articles and book chapters that address a range of issues connected with justice and health care policy. He is the director of a statewide community education project in Michigan titled "Just Caring: Conflicting Rights, Uncertain Responsibilities," which is exploring democratic decision-making approaches to health care rationing. He continues to work on a book titled Pricing Human Life: Moral and Public Policy Dilemmas .
Daniel J. Kevles is the Koepfli Professor of the Humanities at the California Institute of Technology, where he heads the Program on Science, Ethics, and Public Policy. He is the coeditor, with Leory Hood, of The Code of Codes: Scientific and Social Issues in the Human Genome Project (Harvard, 1992) and is currently completing a book on the essence and ownership of life.
Marc A. Lappé is Professor of Health Policy and Ethics in the Department of Medical Education at the University of Illinois College of Medicine at Chicago. He has had a broad background straddling fields in science, ethics, and health policy, having held positions at the University of California and at the Hastings Center, as well as in various state and federal agencies. He has written more than 100 publications, including five books and several chapters in public health, policy, and toxicology texts. His most recent book is Chemical Deception (Sierra Club Books, 1991), which examines myths about toxic substances.
Timothy F. Murphy is Assistant Professor of Philosophy in the Biomedical Sciences, Department of Medical Education, at the University of Illinois College of Medicine at Chicago. He is the coeditor, with Suzanne Poirier, of Writing AIDS: Gay Literature, Language, and Analysis (Columbia, 1993), the editor of Gay Ethics: Outing, Civil Rights, and the Meaning of Science (Haworth Press, 1994), and the author of a forthcoming book, Ethics in an Epidemic: AIDS, Morality, and Culture (California, 1994).
Robert J. Pokorski is Vice President, Medical Research, of North American Reassurance. He directs medical research and development and is responsible for developing underwriting guidelines that reflect recent trends in medical care and longevity. He is a member of the American Council of Life
Insurance Medical Section Genetic Testing Committee, having formerly served as chairman of that committee. He is also a member of the Association of Life Insurance Medical Directors of America. Dr. Pokorski earned his medical degree at Creighton University, is certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine and the Board of Insurance Medicine, and is a fellow of the American College of Physicians.