Bruce Jennings is Director of the Center for Humans and Nature, a private operating foundation that focuses on ethical issues in environmental and health policy, and Senior Consultant at the Hastings Center, Garrison, NY. He also teaches at the Yale University School of Public Health. He is author of numerous books and articles on ethical and social issues in health-care and public policy. He is co-author (with Willard Gaylin) of The Perversion of Autonomy: The Uses of Coercion and Constraint in a Liberal Society (2nd edn., Georgetown University Press, 2003). He is currently at work on a book on dementia, quality of life, and the ethics of long-term care.