Raanan Gillon

Chair of the Institute of Medical Ethics, is a retired hybrid of NHS GP and philosopher and is now Emeritus Professor of Medical Ethics at Imperial College London, where he still does some teaching and continues to direct its one week intensive course in medical ethics which he started in 1983. He is Chairman of the Institute of Medical Ethics, a member of the British Medical Association’s Medical Ethics Committee and is President of the Health Care Ethics Forum. He was Editor of the Journal of Medical Ethics for 20 years until 2001, and he retired from part-time NHS general practice at the end of 2002. He has published extensively on medical ethics and his book ‘Philosophical Medical Ethics’ continues to be reprinted while a second edition continues its prolonged gestation.

Kenneth Boyd

Professor of Medical Ethics and Director of Clinical Skills, Personal and Professional Development, College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine, University of Edinburgh. He is Secretary of the Institute of Medical Ethics, Chair of the Boyd Group on the use of animals in science, and a Deputy Editor of the Journal of Medical Ethics. He was Editor of the 1987 Pond Report on the Teaching of Medical Ethics. He is author of numerous papers on medical ethics, including most recently 'Beyond Consent', Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh 2004; 34: 290-295, and 'Medical ethics: principles, persons, and perspectives: from controversy to conversation', Journal of Medical Ethics 2005; 31:481-486