Sharan Newman is the author of The Real History of the End of the World: Apocalyptic Predictions From Revelation and Nostradamus to Y2K and 2012.

Ellen Herman is a professor of contemporary American history at the University of Oregon and the creator of the Adoption History Project. She is the author of Kinship by Design: A History of Adoption in the Modern United States, which examines the history of modern adoption.

The National Indian Child Welfare Association (NICWA) is a national voice for American Indian children and families. They are a comprehensive source of information on American Indian child welfare and the only national American Indian organization focused specifically on the tribal capacity to prevent child abuse and neglect. Sarah Kastelic is the executive director.

Article posted on the Adoption History Project site about federal efforts to place American Indian children in non-Indian homes.

The Adoption History Project at the University of Oregon is devoted to making adoption history accessible and interesting to visitors who may not be aware that adoption has a history at all. Contact project author Ellen Herman.

Linda Ganzini, professor of psychiatry and medicine at Oregon Health Sciences University, surveyed 2,500 Oregon physicians and 500 hospice workers about patients’ experience of assisted suicide.

Darien Fenn, professor in the psychiatry department at Oregon Health Sciences University, has studied the attitude of Oregon psychologists toward physician-assisted suicide and the Oregon Death with Dignity Act. He can be emailed through a website contact form.

Courtney Campbell, Oregon State University philosophy professor, has focused on the Latter-day Saints and medical ethics, as well as hospice and assisted suicide. He has authored numerous articles on the controversial Oregon Death with Dignity Act and on the Oregon Health Plan.

A. Richard Bullock is an associate clergy member at St. Michael & All Angels Episcopal Church in Portland, Ore., and co-author of Clergy Renewal: The Alban Guide to Sabbatical Planning.