Nancy S. Jecker PhD

Nancy S. Jecker, Ph.D. is Professor of Bioethics at the University of Washington School of Medicine. Dr. Jecker holds Visiting Professorships at the University of Johannesburg, African Centre for Epistemology and Philosophy of Science, and the Chinese University of Hong Kong Centre for Bioethics.

Dr. Jecker was elected President of the International Association of Bioethics (2022-2024) and has served on its Board of Directors since 2019. She was previously elected to the Board of Directors of the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities. Dr. Jecker is a Fulbright US Scholar (selected 2021), three-time Rockefeller Foundation awardee, two-time National Endowment for the Humanities awardee, Brocher Foundation Visiting Researcher, and two-time Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science International Fellow.

Dr. Jecker’s research spans a range of topics, most notably global bioethics, justice and healthcare allocation, individual and societal aging, respect for persons and human dignity, sub-Saharan African philosophy, and the ethics of artificial intelligence (AI). Dr. Jecker has published over 200 articles and 4 books. Her fifth book (with co-author Caesar Atuire), WHAT IS A PERSON? UNTAPPED INSIGHTS FROM AFRICA, will be published by Oxford University Press (2024), the first in its new series on Philosophy Across Borders. Previous books are ENDING MIDLIFE BIAS (Oxford 2020); WRONG MEDICINE (with Lawrence Schneiderman, Johns Hopkins 2011); BIOETHICS, 3RD ED (with Albert Jonsen and Robert Pearlman, Jones and Bartlett 2011); and AGING AND ETHICS (Humana 1991).

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