Sean D. Aas is a Senior Research Scholar at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics and Assistant Professor in the Philosophy Department at Georgetown University. His primary areas of research are bioethics and social and political philosophy, with a significant focus on issues of disability: disability as social construct, disability and political egalitarianism, disability and health.

Collin O'Neil is an Associate Professor in the Philosophy Department at Lehman College, City University of New York. He teaches and writes on applied ethics, especially medical and clinical research ethics, and topics in legal philosophy.

Chiara Lepora has worked forMédecins Sans Frontières since 2002 and is currently Head of the Manson Unit for MSF UK. She is a medical doctor who conducts research on the ethics of humanitarian assistance and coauthored, with Robert E. Goodin, the book, On Complicity and Compromise (2013).

Introduction Part I: Bioethics and Philosophical Methodology Part II: Creating Life Part III: Value of Life: Disability and Well-Being Part IV: Deciding for Others Part V: Deciding for Yourself Part VI: Killing and Dying Part VII: The Ethics of Clinical Research Part VIII: Fair Distribution Part IX: Public Health: Freedom and Justice Part X: The Boundaries of Medicine Part XI: Medicine across Borders: Dilemmas of Complicity and Compromise