Laurence B. McCullough is Professor of Medicine and Medical Ethics and Associate Director for Education in the Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas. He has published 10 books and more than 375 scholarly articles and book chapters on the history of medical ethics, the ethics of the major medical specialties, research ethics, and the philosophy of Leibniz. His research has been supported by grants and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Institutes of Health, and the American Council of Learned Societies.