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.
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.