Priscilla Alderson, research sociologist at the Social Science Research Unit, Institute of Education, London University;

Peter Beck, consultant physician, Penarth, South Wales, and secretary of the Royal College of Physicians’ committee on ethical issues in medicine;

Bela Blasszauer, senior lecturer in medical ethics, University of Pecs, Hungary;

Martin Bojar, former Minister of Health of the Czech Republic; clinical neurologist and teacher of medical ethics;

Martyn Evans, University College Fellow at the Centre for Philosophy and Health Care, University College, Swansea;

Christopher Heginbotham, chief executive of the East and North Hertfordshire Health Authority;

Jean McCarthy, lecturer in health care ethics and health care law at the Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street, London;

Sheila McLean, International Bar Association professor of law and ethics in medicine, University of Glasgow;

Derek Morgan, lecturer in law at the University of Wales, Cardiff;

Jan Helge Solbakk, secretary of the Norwegian National Medical Reserach Ethics Committee, and professor of medical ethics at the University of Tromsø;

Zbigniew Szawarski, former professor of medical ethics at the Academy of Medicine, Warsaw, presently at University College, Swansea;

Luke Zander, senior lecturer in general practice at the United Medical and Dental Schools at St Thomas’s Hospital, London.