AUTHOR BIOS:

Henk ten Have studied medicine and philosophy at Leiden Univer­sity, the Netherlands (MD 1976; PhD 1983). He worked as researcher (Pathology Laborato­ry, University of Leiden, as practicing physician in the Municipal Health Services of Rotterdam before being appointed as Professor of Philosophy in the Faculty of Medicine and Fac­ulty of Health Sciences, University of Limburg (Maastricht), and subsequently as Professor of Medical Ethics and the Director of the Department of Eth­ics, Philosophy and History of Medicine in the University Medical Centre Nijmegen, the Netherlands. In 2003 he joined UNESCO as Director of the Division of Ethics of Science and Technology. From2010 until 2019 he has been Director of the Center for Healthcare Ethics at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, USA.). In July 2019 he has retired and is now Emeritus Professor at Duquesne University. His latest books are: Global Bioethics; An Introduction (2016), Vulnerability; Challenging Bioethics (2016), and Wounded Planet. How declining biodiversity endangers health and how bioethics can help (2019). He is editor of the Encyclopedia of Global Bioethics (3 volumes, 2016) and (with Bert Gordijn) editor of the Handbook of Global Bioethics (4 volumes, 2014). 

Maria do Céu Patrão Neves studied philosophy at Lisbon University, Portugal, and Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium (PhD 1991), and bioethics at Georgetown University, Washington DC, and is currently Full Professor of Ethics at the University of the Azores, Portugal. She also teaches regularly in the Bioethics Master's degree of the School of Medicine of Lisbon, and in the Bioethics PhD's degree of the Bioethics Institute (Catholic University). She was consultant on Ethics of Life for the President of the Portuguese Republic, and a Member of the National Ethics Committee, and of the Board of Directors of the International Association of Bioethics. She is Member of the "Global Ethics Observatory", UNESCO, and an expert on Ethics for the European Commission. Her latest book is Brave New Bioethics (2016), and she is currently leading the publication of a 12 volume collection on Applied Ethics (2016-2018).