Christopher J. Newell is an associate professor of medical ethics in the School of Medicine of the University of Tasmania and an adjunct lecturer in ethics at Trinity College Theological School in Melbourne. An Anglican priest in the diocese of Tasmania, he serves as honorary priest at St. David’s Cathedral in Hobart. Dr. Newell, who lives with various disabilities, including impaired mobility, has been honored by the Australian government for his advocacy for people with disabilities and his research on their care and treatment, particularly the promise of biotechnology. A graduate of the Tasmanian State Institute of Technology, he received a master’s degree with honors in history and the philosophy of science from the University of Wollongong in New South Wales, Australia, and a Ph.D. in the bioethics of disability in 1994 from Deakin University in Geelong, Victoria, Australia. Dr. Newell later earned a bachelor of divinity degree at Murdoch University in Perth, Western Australia, and a master’s degree in professional education and training at Deakin. He began his teaching career as a lecturer in bioethics at the University of Tasmania’s School of Nursing, became a senior lecturer in its School of Medicine in 1995, and was named to his present position in 2004. He has served as a consultant to corporations, government bodies, universities, and community organizations. The former chair of the Telstra Consumer Consultative Council, the largest corporate consultative body in Australia, he also has been vice president of the Australian Bioethics Association and, by appointment of the Australian Minister for Health, a member of the Australian Health Ethics Committee. He currently serves on the National Health and Medical Research Council and on the Australian Commission for Safety and Quality in Health Care. In 2001, Dr. Newell was made a member of the Order of Australia and also “highly commended” in the Australian Human Rights Awards. In addition, he is the recipient of an Australian Achiever Award, a Tasmania Day Award, and a University of Tasmania Distinguished Alumni Award. He is an elected fellow of the Australian College of Educators and an honorary life member of the Consumers’ Health Forum of Australia, Inc. Chair of the editorial committee of Australian Health Consumer, Dr. Newell also serves on the editorial boards the Journal of Health Care Chaplaincy and the Journal of Religion, Disability and Health, as a consultant editor of Nursing Ethics, and as a member of the advisory editorial panel of Australian Prescriber. He was a member of the international editorial board of the Encyclopedia of Disability. The author or co-author of more than 125 articles published in academic and professional journals, he has contributed essays to some thirty volumes, is the co-editor (with Trevor Parmenter) of Disability in Education: Context, Curriculum, and Culture (2005), and is the co-author of five other books, including (with Gerard Goggin) the award-winning Disability in Australia: Exposing a Social Apartheid, which was published in 2005 by the University of New South Wales Press. Dr. Newell is presently working on two new studies—one dealing with Australian spirituality and education and the other on human rights and education.