I am true pleased to introduce this issue of Global Virtue Ethics Review.

I am true pleased to introduce this issue of Global Virtue Ethics Review. The papers in this issue exemplify the novel rise to prominence of practical ethics, especially medical ethics and business ethics, within the two the Analytic and Continental educates of philosophical thought. The first essays in this issue, "Unwittingly De-Humanizing Patients; Rehabilitating Informed Consent" from Barbara J. Russell is from the secondary of these traditions. Professor Russell argues that the doctrine of informed concord as it is currently