Nancy S. Jecker
@profjecker.bsky.social
Professor, University of Washington School of Medicine and Visiting Professor, University of Johannesburg and the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Past President of the International Association of Bioethics.
What might Confucius say about creating digital doppelgängers of family members who are newly dead, dying, or comatose? See my just published paper with Jing-Bao Nie and Anita Ho urldefense.com/v3/__https:/...
What might Confucius say? Digital doppelgängers for people who are newly dead, dying, or comatose
This paper explores what Confucius might say about the use of generative AI-based digital doppelgängers in healthcare for patients who are newly dead, dying, or comatose. We focus on the use of the...
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July 21, 2026 at 9:32 PM
What might Confucius say about creating digital doppelgängers of family members who are newly dead, dying, or comatose? See my just published paper with Jing-Bao Nie and Anita Ho urldefense.com/v3/__https:/...
Reposted by Nancy S. Jecker
How “America First” Abandoned Global Health: The Case for an African Model www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
How “America First” Abandoned Global Health: The Case for an African Model
Published in The American Journal of Bioethics (Ahead of Print, 2026)
www.tandfonline.com
June 27, 2026 at 7:59 PM
How “America First” Abandoned Global Health: The Case for an African Model www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
How “America First” Abandoned Global Health: The Case for an African Model www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
How “America First” Abandoned Global Health: The Case for an African Model
Published in The American Journal of Bioethics (Ahead of Print, 2026)
www.tandfonline.com
June 27, 2026 at 7:59 PM
How “America First” Abandoned Global Health: The Case for an African Model www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Reposted by Nancy S. Jecker
It just came out! The new #UNAM #bioethics journal, Bioética UNAM. It publishes in Spanish or English. Check it out!
revista.bioetica.unam.mx/index.php/pub
revista.bioetica.unam.mx/index.php/pub
April 4, 2025 at 10:20 PM
It just came out! The new #UNAM #bioethics journal, Bioética UNAM. It publishes in Spanish or English. Check it out!
revista.bioetica.unam.mx/index.php/pub
revista.bioetica.unam.mx/index.php/pub
Excited to share my new book (with coauthor, Caesar Atuire): What is a Person? Untapped Insights from Africa (Oxford 2025). We examine personhood and its application to a range of cases: prenatal life, people with disorders of consciousness, social robots, animals, nature, & extraterrestrial life.
April 12, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Excited to share my new book (with coauthor, Caesar Atuire): What is a Person? Untapped Insights from Africa (Oxford 2025). We examine personhood and its application to a range of cases: prenatal life, people with disorders of consciousness, social robots, animals, nature, & extraterrestrial life.