Dr. Nancy Berlinger, PhD, MDiv, is a research scholar at the Hastings Center, an independent, nonprofit bioethics research institute located in Garrison, New York. Her research and teaching focuses on health care ethics, related topics in public health ethics and in human rights, and ethics education for health care professionals, including chaplains. Dr. Berlinger is the project director for the forthcoming revision of theHastings Center guidelines on end-of-life care and has a special interest in ethical issues related to cancer as a chronic illness. She teaches health care ethics to graduat...