Renee Fox is Annenberg Professor Emerita of the Social Sciences in the department of sociology and a fellow of the Center for Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania. She is also a research associate at Queen Elizabeth House, the International Development Centre at the University of Oxford. Judith P. Swazey is president of the Acadia Institute in Bar Harbor, Maine, an independent, nonprofit center for the study of issues concerning medicine, science, and society that she founded in 1984.
Her work has focused on social, ethical and policy aspects of biomedicine and health care, professional ethics, and graduate and professional education.