Richard Ashcroft - Professor of Medical Ethics. Bars and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London

Kenneth Boyd - Professor of Medical Ethics, Institute of Medical Ethics, University of Edinburgh

Alistair Campbell - Emeritus Professor of Ethics in Medicine, Centre for Ethics in Medicine, University of Bristol

Len Doyal - Emeritus Professor of Medical Ethics, University of London Department of Human Science and Medical Ethics, St Bartholemew's and the Royal London School of Medicine and Dentistry

Charles Foster - Barrister, Outer Temple Chambers, The Outer Temple, 222 Strand, London WC2R 1BA

Colin Greenhalgh - Chair, Cambridgeshire Clinical Ethics Forum, Addenbrooke's Hospital

Judith Hendrick - Senior Lecturer, School of Social Sciences and Law, Oxford Brookes University

Don Hill - Co-ordinator of Postgraduate Education and Continuing Professional Development, The Ethox Centre

Soren Holm - Professor of Clinical Bioethics, University of Manchester

Tony Hope - Professor of Medical Ethics, University of Oxford

Richard Huxtable - Senior Lecturer in Medical Law and Ethics, Centre for Ethics in Medicine, University of Bristol

Andrew Lawson - Consultant Anaesthetist at Royal Berkshire Hospital and Teaching Fellow, Medical Ethics Unit, Imperial College, London

Anneke Lucassen - Professor of Clinical Genetics and Honorary Consultant in Clinical Genetics, University of Southampton medical school and Wessex Clinical Genetics Service.

Penney Lewis - Professor of Law, School of Law and Centre of Medical Law and Ethics, King's College, London WC2R 2LS

Dick Trompeter - Consultant Paediatrician and Chair of Great Ormond Street Hospital Clinical Ethics Committee

Editor: Anne Slowther