Nouzha Guessousis Professor of Hassan II University of Casablanca – Morocco. Researcher, essayist and author of columns and press forums in women's rights and in bioethics she has been appointed since 2019 as Member of the National Council for Human Rights of Morocco. Former member (2000-2007) and President of the International Bioethics Committee of UNESCO (2005-2007); she contributed to the development and drafting of the Universal Declaration on Human Genetic Data (2003) and the Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights (2005). Her latest publications in English related to the topic of this book are: “Contextualizing the Islamic Perspective on Social Responsibility” (in Religious Perspectives on Social Responsibility in Health, Springer, 2018); “General Considerations about Islamic and Universal Bioethics” (in Religious Perspectives on Bioethics and Human Rights, Springer, 2017); “Non-discrimination and stigmatization, (in Handbook of Global Bioethics, Springer, 2014, pp.139-151); “Women rights in Muslim societies. Past, Present and Future. Lessons from the Moroccan experience” (Philosophy and Social Criticism, 2012) and Follow-up action by UNESCO (in The UNESCO Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights. Background, principles and application, 2009).
Henk ten Havestudied medicine and philosophy at Leiden University, the Netherlands (MD 1976; PhD 1983). He worked as researcher (Pathology Laboratory, University of Leiden, as practicing physician in the Municipal Health Services (Rotterdam) before being appointed as Professor of Philosophy in the Faculty of Medicine and Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Limburg, and subsequently as Professor of Medical Ethics and the Director of the Department of Ethics, Philosophy and History of Medicine in the University Medical Centre Nijmegen, the Netherlands. In 2003 he joined UNESCO as Director of the Division of Ethics of Science and Technology. Since 2010 until 2019 he was Director of the Center for Healthcare Ethics at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, USA. His latest books are: Global Bioethics; An Introduction (2016), Vulnerability; Challenging Bioethics (2016) and Wounded Planet (2019).