Dr. David Kirchhoffer is Director of the Queensland Bioethics Centre at Australian Catholic University. He conducts research, teaching and consultancy in bioethical issues. In addition to numerous scholarly articles and book chapters, he is the author of Human Dignity in Contemporary Ethics (Teneo Press, 2013) and co-editor with Bernadette Richards of Beyond Autonomy: Limits and Alternatives to Informed Consent in Human Research Ethics (Cambridge UP, 2019).