Assya PascalevASSYA PASCALEV is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Interdisciplinary Bioethics Program at Howard University, Washington, DC. She is Founding Director of the Bulgarian Center for Bioethics in Sofia, Bulgaria. Dr. Pascalev receivedher Ph.D. in Applied Philosophy from Bowling Green State University, Ohio, USA. She has expertise in biomedical ethics, moral philosophy, applied and professional ethics (including research ethics and the ethics of biotechnology), ethical theory and the philosophy of death and dying. She has over 50 publications in her areas of expertise. Dr. Pascalev is a Board Member of the National Association for Clinical and Translational Science, USA, and a member of the Medical Academy of Washington, DC. She is a book series editor for Perspectives in Bioethics, Trivent Publishing, Hungary. DR. GERGELY TARI is the Vice Director of the Department of Behavioural Sciences at the Albert Szent-Gyorgyi Medical School, University of Szeged, and a research fellow at the MTA Lendulet "Values and Science" Research Group, Institute of Philosophy, Hungarian Academy of Sciences. His main research interest is related to the ethics of medicalization, with a particular focus on childbirth, psychiatry, and end-of-life care. Read More Read Less