Ann Gallagher is a Professor and Head of the Department of Health Sciences at the Brunel University of London.Robert Jago is a Professor of Law and Associate Dean for Research and Knowledge Exchange in the Faculty of Business and Law at Royal Holloway, University of London.Settimio Monteverde is a professor at the Bern University of Applied Sciences and co-director of the Clinical Ethics Unit at the University Hospital of Zurich, Switzerland.Georgina Morley is Nurse Ethicist, Clinical Ethicist, and Director of the Nursing Ethics Program at Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, USA.Elizabeth Peter is a professor at the Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing and a member of the Joint Centre for Bioethics, University of Toronto, Canada.Daniel Sperling is an Associate Professor of Bioethics, Department of Nursing, University of Haifa, Israel.Riitta Suhonen, is a professor in Nursing Science, Gerontological Nursing, in the University of Turku, Finland.