**Joel Zimbelman**

Joel Zimbelman is Professor Emeritus of Religious Ethics in the Department of Comparative Religion and Humanities at California State University Chico. His research interests include comparative religious and applied social ethics, the history and development of Christian ethics, religious and philosophical perspectives on biomedical ethics, ethics and biotechnology, and public health policy. He is the author, along with Becky White, of *Moral Dilemmas in Community Health Care: Cases and Commentaries* (Pearson Longman 2005).
