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Matti Häyry is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Kuopio, Finland, and Head of Centre for Professional Ethics and Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Central Lancashire, UK. He has taught philosophy and bioethics in various Finnish Universities since 1985, and coordinated research projects in bioethics at the University of Helsinki. He has been a permanent adviser on bioethics to the National Research and Development Center for Welfare and Health since 1991, and he has participated in the work of legislative committees at the Finnish Ministries of Justice and Health. His publications include Critical Studies in Philosophical Medical Ethics (1990), Liberal Utilitarianism and Applied Ethics (1994), Playing God: Essays on Bioethics (2001), and many articles on bioethics and general philosophy in academic journals and edited collections.
Tuija Takala is Research Fellow at the University of Helsinki, Finland. She has taught philosophy at the Universities of Helsinki and Kuopio in Finland. Her research interests include political philosophy and applied ethics, particularly bioethics. Her publications include Genes, Sense, and Sensibility: Philosophical Studies on the Ethics of Modern Biotechnologies (2000), and articles in Bioethics, Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics, Journal of Medical Ethics, and The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy.