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Contributors
Michiel De Proost is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Philosophy and Moral Sciences at Ghent University and is affiliated with the Bioethics Institute Ghent and the METAMEDICA consortium.
Benjamin Chin-Yee is a hematologist in the Division of Hematology, Western University, Canada, and a doctoral student in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge. His research interests span philosophy of medicine, values in science, and the ethics of scientific and clinical communication.
Ilvie Prince is a doctoral candidate at Leibniz University Hannover. Her work focuses on the complex relationship between ethics and epistemology in medicine, with a particular interest in medical practices that challenge established concepts and methods.
Megan A. Dean is an assistant professor in the Philosophy Department at Michigan State University and the North American coordinator of Culinary Mind: Center for Philosophy of Food. She works in feminist bioethics with a focus on the ethics of eating.
Jonathan Ichikawa is a professor and department head in philosophy at the University of British Columbia. His research interests center around epistemology, feminist philosophy, ethics, and the philosophy of language, especially the points at which those philosophical subfields interact with one another.
期刊介绍:
The Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal offers a scholarly forum for diverse views on major issues in bioethics, such as analysis and critique of principlism, feminist perspectives in bioethics, the work of the Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments, active euthanasia, genetics, health care reform, and organ transplantation. Each issue includes "Scope Notes," an overview and extensive annotated bibliography on a specific topic in bioethics, and "Bioethics Inside the Beltway," a report written by a Washington insider updating bioethics activities on the federal level.