Professor Singer is Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics at the University Center for Human Values, Princeton University. He is the author of Practical Ethics, one of the most widely used texts in applied ethics, and Animal Liberation, which is credited with triggering the modern animal-rights movement. Rethinking Life and Death received the National Book Council’s Banjo Award for Non-Fiction. He wrote the major article on Ethics in the current edition of Encyclopedia Britannica, and, with Helga Kuhse, is co-editor of the journal Bioethics. Professor Singer is also founder of the International Association of Bioethics.