David Schmidtz is Editor of Social Philosophy & Policy.
Lynn A. Jansen is an Associate Research Professor at the University of Arizona Center for the Philosophy of Freedom. She does work in bioethics, research ethics, and clinical medical ethics. She has published extensively in biomedical ethics on topics including end-of-life care, medical beneficence, physician aid in dying, exploitation, paternalism, and altruism. Her current research focuses on informed consent in human subjects research and clinical care, paying special attention to how cognitive biases impact patient decision-making. Jansen is the past recipient of two NIH grants and one Greenwall Foundation grant that studied barriers to informed consent in early-phase cancer trials. She is Managing Editor of Social Philosophy & Policy, Co-Editor-in-Chief of Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics (with Daniel P. Sulmasy), and the editor of Death in the Clinic (2006).
Udo Schüklenk is a Professor of Philosophy and holds the Ontario Research Chair in Bioethics at Queen’s University at Kingston, Canada. His current main research focus is on ethical issues at the end of life and on the use and abuse of conscientious objection in health-care practice. He is an author or editor of nine books, including most recently coedited volumes This Is Bioethics: An Introduction (2020; with Ruth Chadwick) and Bioethics: An Anthology (2021; with Peter Singer). Schüklenk has more than 100 peer-reviewed journal contributions, seventy book chapters or encyclopedia entries, and more than eighty journal editorials. He is a long-serving Joint Editor-in-Chief of Bioethics, the official journal of the International Association of Bioethics.
Greg Bognar is Professor of Practical Philosophy at Stockholm University and a Senior Researcher at the Stockholm Centre for Healthcare Ethics. His research is in normative and applied ethics, especially bioethics and politics, philosophy, and economics. He is coauthor of The Ethics of Health Care Rationing: An Introduction (2014, 2nd ed. 2022; with Iwao Hirose) and coeditor of Ageing without Ageism: Conceptual Puzzles and Policy Proposals (2023; with Axel Gosseries).
Søren Holm holds a Chair in Bioethics at the Centre for Social Ethics and Policy, which is part of the School of Law at the University of Manchester in Great Britain and the University of Oslo. Holm has broad research interests in health-care ethics and bioethics, the philosophy of medicine, and the intersection of bioethics and law. He has written extensively on issues in research ethics in journals such as Bioethics; Medicine, Health Care, and Philosophy; Journal of Medical Ethics; and Journal of Internal Medicine. He has served as President of the European Society for the Philosophy of Medicine and Health Care, President of the International Association of Bioethics, and a member of the Danish Council of Ethics and of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics. He was Editor of Journal of Medical Ethics 2004–2011 and Editor of Clinical Ethics 2011–2022.
Lauren Hall is Professor and Associate Dean of Academic Affairs at the Rochester Institute of Technology College of Liberal Arts. She is author of The Medicalization of Birth and Death (2019) and Family and the Politics of Moderation (2014) as well as coeditor of Lucid Mind, Intrepid Spirit: Essays on the Thought of Chantal Delsol (2012; with Paul Seaton). Hall has written extensively on the classical liberal tradition, including articles on Edmund Burke, Adam Smith, and Montesquieu. Her current research is focused on the moral and political implications of health-care regulations as well as issues relating to gender and the family.
Carolyn Hughes Tuohy is Professor Emerita of Political Science and Distinguished Fellow in the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy at the University of Toronto. Her scholarly research focuses on comparative public policy, particularly social policy, in advanced industrial nations. She has authored, coauthored, or edited eight books as well as numerous journal articles and book chapters on health and social policy, including patterns of policy change, medical politics, professional self-regulation, long-term care, regulation of occupational health hazards, and comparative approaches in public policy. Tuohy’s most recent book is Remaking Policy: Scale, Pace, and Political Strategy in Health Care Reform (2018) and she is currently working on a book on the power of narrative in public policy. She is a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.
Sarah Zoe Raskoff is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Vanderbilt University and core faculty at Vanderbilt’s Center for Biomedical Ethics and Society where she also provides clinical ethics consultation. She was a research fellow at the Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics at the University of Oxford during 2022–2023 and was a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Bioethics at the National Institutes of Health during 2020–2022. Raskoff works primarily in practical ethics, especially in bioethics, focusing on the use of noncoercive interventions to influence choice in clinical and research settings as well as on understanding and reforming bioethical practice and consultation. Her work has been published in journals such as Bioethics, Journal of Health Care Law & Policy, The Lancet, and Ethics.
F. M. Kamm is the Henry Rutgers University Professor of Philosophy and Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University. Kamm’s research focuses on normative ethical theory and practical ethics. She has published numerous articles and ten books, including Creation and Abortion (1992); Morality, Mortality, Volumes 1 and 2 (1993 and 1996); Intricate Ethics (2007); The Trolley Problem Mysteries (2016); Almost Over: Aging, Dying, Dead (2020); and most recently Rights and Their Limits: In Theory, Cases, and Pandemics (2022). Kamm served as a consultant to the World Health Organization and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Michael Cannon is the Cato Institute’s Director of Health Policy Studies. His scholarship ranges from public health and regulation of clinicians, medical facilities, pharmaceuticals, and medical devices to employer-sponsored and other private health insurance, medical malpractice litigation, and administrative law. Cannon has appeared on ABC, Al Jazeera, BBC, CBS, CNN, CNBC, CSPAN, Fox News Channel, NPR, and other broadcast media. His articles have appeared in newspapers such as the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, and the Chicago Tribune as well as in journals such as JAMA Internal Medicine; Harvard Health Policy Review; and the Yale Journal of Health Policy, Law, and Ethics. He is coeditor of Replacing Obamacare: The Cato Institute on Health Care Reform (2012; with Michael Tanner); author of 50 Vetoes: How States Can Stop the Obama Health Care Law (2013); coauthor of Healthy Competition: What’s Holding Back Health Care and How to Free It (2007; with Michael Tanner); and author of a forthcoming book Recovery: A Guide to Reforming the U.S. Health Sector.
Jessica Flanigan is the Richard L. Morrill Chair in Ethics and Democratic Values and Professor of Leadership Studies and Philosophy, Politics, Economics, and Law at the University of Richmond. Her research addresses topics in bioethics and political philosophy, with a particular focus on public health ethics, economic justice, and the enforceability of rights. Flanigan has published in journals such as Philosophical Studies, The Journal of Business Ethics, Leadership, The Journal of Moral Philosophy, and Journal of Political Philosophy. She is the author of Pharmaceutical Freedom (2017) and the coauthor of Debating Sex Work (2019; with Lori Watson). She is currently working on a book about the ethics of pregnancy and a book about language and ethics.
Peter Jaworski is an Associate Teaching Professor of Strategy, Ethics, Economics, and Public Policy at the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University. His research primarily focuses on the ethics and economics of blood plasma collection and patient access to therapies made from plasma. Jaworski’s work has been published in journals such as Ethics, Philosophical Studies, The Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence, The Journal of Business Ethics, The Journal of Value Inquiry, and Ethical Theory and Moral Practice. He has coauthored Markets without Limits (2015, 2nd ed. 2022; with Jason Brennan) and Business Ethics for Better Behavior (2021; with Jason Brennan, William English, and John Hasnas).
James Stacey Taylor is a Professor of Philosophy at The College of New Jersey. He is the author of five books: Stakes and Kidneys: Why Markets in Human Body Parts Are Morally Imperative (2005); Practical Autonomy and Bioethics (2009); Death, Posthumous Harm, and Bioethics (2012); Markets with Limits: How the Commodification of Academia Derails Debate (2022); and Bloody Bioethics: Why Prohibiting Donor Compensation Harms Patients and Wrongs Donors (2022). He is also the editor of Personal Autonomy: New Essays (2005) and The Metaphysics and Ethics of Death (2013). He is currently completing two book projects: one addresses academic misconduct and the other addresses the ontological and moral limits of voluntary exchange.
