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About the Authors

Michaela Amering is a Professor of Psychiatry

at the Medical University of Vienna, Department
of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, with a focus of
interest on psychosis, and the development of the
families and the users movements. Her experience
also includes work in community psychiatry and
research in the United Kingdom and the United
States. She is currently serving as secretary of the
AEP Section on Womens Mental Health and as
secretary of the WPA Section on Public Policy
and Psychiatry. Recent works include Recovery
in mental health. Reshaping scientific and clinical
responsibilities (Amering and Schmolke, London:
Wiley-Blackwell 2009; and Handbook of service
user involvement in mental health research Amering, Schrank, and Wallcraft (eds.). London: WileyBlackwell; 2009). She can be contacted via e-mail
at: michaela.amering@meduniwien.ac.at
Bennett Foddy is the current Harold T. Shapiro
Fellow in Bioethics and Princeton Universitys Center for Human Values. He works on the ethics and
metaphysics of drug addiction and human enhancement. He recently published Can addicted heroin
users consent to the prescription of their drug? in
Bioethics with Prof. Savulescu. He can be contacted
via e-mail at: bfoddy@princeton.edu
Peter Hadreas is currently an Associate Professor in Philosophy at San Jos State University. His
research has been primarily in phenomenology,
philosophical psychology, and ancient philosophy. He has published various articles that apply

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phenomenological methods to psychological and

neurobiological topics, such as, Intentionality
and the neurobiology of pleasure, in Studies in
History and the Philosophy of Biology and the
Biomedical Sciences (30:219236, 1999), and
Phenomenology and the incest taboo, in Journal
of Phenomenological Psychology (33:20322,
2002). He can be contacted via e-mail at: phadreas@earthlink.net
Malcolm Horne is Deputy Director of the
Howard Florey Institute, Conjoint Professor of
Medicine in the University of Melbournes Centre for Neuroscience, and Senior Consultant in
Neurology at St Vincents Hospital, Melbourne,
specializing in disorders of movement and frontal
lobe disorders. His research relates to Parkinsons
disease and to the mechanisms of action of dopamine in frontal lobe function and dysfunction.
He can be reached via e-mal at: malcolm.horne@
florey.edu.au
Eric Matthews is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy and Honorary Research Professor of
Medical and Psychiatric Ethics in the University
of Aberdeen, Scotland. A longstanding member of
the Committee of the Royal College of Psychiatrists Philosophy Special Interest Group, he has
published widely in the philosophy of psychiatry. His most recent book is Body-subjects and
disordered minds: treating the whole person in
psychiatry (Oxford/New York, Oxford University
Press, 2007). He can be contacted via e-mail at:
e.matthews@abdn.ac.uk

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Marilyn Nissim-Sabat is Professor Emeritus,

Philosophy Department, Lewis University. She has
published widely in philosophy, psychoanalysis,
and feminism. She is the author of Neither victim
nor survivor: Thinking toward a new humanity (forthcoming from Lexington Books in July,
2009). She can be contacted via e-mail at: nissimma@hotmail.com
Lennart Nordenfelt has been Professor of
Philosophy of Medicine and Health Care at the
Department of Health and Society, Linkping
University, Sweden, since 1987. He received
his doctoral degree in theoretical philosophy at
the University of Uppsala in 1974. Nordenfelts
research focus lies in action theory, philosophy
of medicine (including psychiatry), and the philosophy of health and welfare. His monographs
include On the nature of health (1987/1995), On
crime, punishment and psychiatric care (1992),
Action, ability and health (2000), and Rationality and compulsion: Applying action theory to
psychiatry (2007). He can be contacted via e-mail
at: lennart.nordenfelt@ihs.liu.se
Jennifer Radden is a Professor of Philosophy at
the University of Massachusetts Boston, and Ethics Consultant at McLean Hospital in Belmont,
Massachusetts. Jennifer Radden has published
extensively on mental health concepts, the history of medicine, and ethical and policy aspects
of psychiatric theory and practice. Recent work
includes Moody minds distempered: Essays on
melancholy and depression (2008). She is a past
President of the Association for the Advancement
of Philosophy and Psychiatry. She can be contacted
via e-mail at: Jennifer.radden@umb.edu

Mark Rego is a psychiatrist in full-time clinical

practice. His practice is devoted to psychopharmacology in patients ranging from adolescence to
the elderly. In addition to conventional practice,
Dr. Regos practice has always included a large
focus on special populations such as dementia,
brain injury, medical illness, and developmental
disorders. His interest in philosophy has been on
its use as a tool to better dissect and understand
psychopathology and treatment. He is a lecturer
at the Yale School of Medicine and resides in
Milford, Connecticut. He can be reached at mark.
rego@yale.edu
Marga Reimer is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Arizona in Tucson. Although she has focused on philosophy of language
for the past twenty years, she recently transitioned
into philosophy of psychiatry. A number of her
current projects involve applying her background
in philosophy of language to issues in philosophy
of psychiatry. She can be reached via e-mail at:
reimer@u.arizona.edu
Julian Savulescu is the Uehiro Professor of
Practical Ethics at the University of Oxford, and
director of the Uehiro Center for Practical Ethics.
He has written extensively on ethical issues associated with human enhancement and reproductive
technologies, including Procreative beneficence:
Why we should select the best children in Bioethics. He can be contacted via e-mail at: julian.
savulescu@philosophy.ox.ac.uk