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Nancy S. Jecker

@profjecker.bsky.social
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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.

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Nancy S. Jecker @profjecker.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
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:/...
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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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Nancy S. Jecker @profjecker.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
How “America First” Abandoned Global Health: The Case for an African Model www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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How “America First” Abandoned Global Health: The Case for an African Model
Published in The American Journal of Bioethics (Ahead of Print, 2026)
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Nancy S. Jecker @profjecker.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
How “America First” Abandoned Global Health: The Case for an African Model www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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How “America First” Abandoned Global Health: The Case for an African Model
Published in The American Journal of Bioethics (Ahead of Print, 2026)
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Reposted by Nancy S. Jecker
Gustavo Ortiz Millán @gmomillan.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
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
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Nancy S. Jecker @profjecker.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
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.
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