George Khushf is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of South Carolina. He has written extensively on medical ethics and served as the managing editor of the Journal of Medicine and Philosophy. Professor Khushf is also the Humanities Director at the Center for Bioethics at USC. After receiving a B.S. (1983) in civil engineering at Texas A&M University, George Khushf studied in religion and philosophy at Rice University, receiving an M.A. in 1990, and a Ph.D. in 1993 and was a Fulbright Graduate Fellow in Philosophy at the University of Tübingen.. From 1993-95 he was the managing editor of The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy and a Research Associate at Baylor of Medicine. In Spring 1995 he was the Rockwell Visiting Scholar at the University of Houston. Since July 1995 he has served as Humanities Director of the Center for Bioethics, and as a faculty member of the Department of Philosophy, University of South Carolina. Recent activities have included service as co-chair of the Program Committee of the American Society for Bioethics and the Humanities, and as a consultant for the state of South Carolina strategic planning initiative in public health, developing a schema for integrating diverse health concepts that are implicit in various health agencies. Professor Khushf serves on the editorial boards of five journals, and has published extensively in bioethics and the philosophy of medicine. Current research focuses on administrative and organizational ethics, concepts of health and disease, and medical epistemology