Eric Racine is a Canadian bioethicist and professor at IRCM and Université de Montréal, Canada, leader of projects and initiatives to further the development of living ethics. Bénédicte D’Anjou holds the position of research coordinator at the Pragmatic Health Ethics Research Unit, where she supports and conducts various living ethics initiatives with patients and healthcare professionals. Concurrently, she is pursuing a PhD in Information Studies at McGill University, Canada, focusing on women’s experiences with reproductive health information. Caroline Favron-Godbout is a PhD candidate in bioethics at the Université de Montréal, Canada. With a background in biology, neuroscience, and a professional master’s degree in bioethics, she conducted her doctoral research at the Pragmatic Health Ethics Research Unit. Her work aims to make ethics accessible and meaningful in daily life. Giulia Inguaggiato is an assistant professor at the Department of Ethics Law and Humanities of the Amsterdam UMC, the Netherlands. She has a background in philosophy and bioethics, with a primary research interest in ethics support and ethics education. Suzanne Metselaar is an associate professor and medical ethicist at the Department of Ethics, Law and Humanities of Amsterdam UMC, the Netherlands, and leads a research program on ethics of palliative and end of life care, studying moral challenges in palliative care. She also researches the theoretical foundations and methodologies of clinical ethics. Gabriel Saso-Baudaux is a PhD student in practical philosophy at the University of Sherbrooke, Canada. His research looks at the norms of scientific advice to governments. Broadly speaking, he is interested in political epistemology and the philosophy of social sciences and expertise.
“In a time of growing awareness of the need of joint ethical approaches to current global challenges, this book proposes a novel framework of ‘living ethics’ to better understand, analyse and address everyday ethical challenges in the healthcare and biomedical settings.” Ruth Horn, University of Oxford, UK and University of Augsburg, Germany