About the Authors

摘要

Mark Bratton is an ordained Anglican priest and Senior Chaplain at the University of Warwick. He is a former practicing barrister specializing in medical law. He teaches Values-in-Medicine at the Medical School in the University of Warwick. He has published a number of articles on medical law and ethics, and the relationship between spirituality, medicine and mental disorder. He can be contacted via e-mail at: M.Q.Bratton@warwick.ac.uk Louis C. Charland (Philosophy, University of Western Ontario, 1989) is currently Associate Professor in the Departments of Philosophy and Psychiatry at the University of Western Ontario, where he also holds a joint appointment with the Faculty of Health Sciences. He worked as a program consultant and research analyst in the area of health for several successive branches of the provincial government of Ontario, Canada. Following this, he held several bioethics-related positions at McGill University in Montreal and the University of Toronto. Charland has published widely in the philosophy of psychiatry and the philosophy of emotion. In 2003, he was awarded a Visiting Member Fellowship at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. He can be contacted at the Department of Philosophy and Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada N6A 3K7, or via e-mail at: charland? uwo.ca. His web site can be found at: http://publish.uwo.ca/~charland