Francis J. Beckwith, Ph.D.
Dr. Beckwith is currently Associate Professor of Philosophy, Culture, and Law at Trinity Graduate School. He also is a member of the adjunct faculty at Trinity Law School (Santa Ana, CA) and Trinity Evangelical Divinity School (Deerfield, IL). He received his Ph.D. in philosophy from Fordham University. In addition to serving on the North American editorial board of the Center’s journal Ethics & Medicine, Dr. Beckwith is a general editor of the Center’s new book series Critical Issues in Bioethics. He has published numerous essays, articles, and reviews in various journals and has authored and edited many books including Relativism: Feet Firmly Planted in Mid-Air (Baker 1998), and The Abortion Controversy: 25 Years After Roe v. Wade (2nd ed., Wadsworth 1998).
Donal P. O’Mathuna, Ph.D.
Dr. O’Mathuna is currently Professor of Bioethics and Chemistry at Mount Carmel College of Nursing in Columbus, Ohio. He received his Ph.D. in medicinal chemistry from Ohio State University. He has published widely in the fields of chemistry and bioethics, with a special emphasis on alternative medicine. Dr. O’Mathuna is a co-author of the first four volumes of the Center’s BioBasics series and also is a regular contributor to the Center’s Horizons in Bioethics book series. In addition to being a member of the Mount Carmel Medical Center Institutional Review Board, he is on the Board of Governors of the Ohio Council Against Health Fraud and facilitates discussions on bioethics and alternative medicine as part of his church’s outreach ministry.