@profjecker

Professor of bioethics/philosophy, Fulbright scholar, Supports global bioethics. Tweets are my own.

 UW School of Medicine
depts.washington.edu/bhdept/nancy-s-jecker-phd
Joined June 2020
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What might Confucius say about creating digital doppelgängers for family members who are newly dead, dying, or comatose? tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…

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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What might Confucius say about digital doppelgängers for family members who are newly dead, dying, and comatose? See my just published paper with Jing-Bao Nie and Anita Ho tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…

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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How “America First” Abandoned Global Health: The Case for an African Model tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…

How “America First” Abandoned Global Health: The Case for an African Model

Published in The American Journal of Bioethics (Vol. 26, No. 9, 2026)

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How does the changing world order impact bioethics? See our just published paper: "Bioethics and the World Order: A Curious Coincidence Between Chinese and African Approaches" - Jecker - Developing World Bioethics - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…

Bioethics and the World Order: A Curious Coincidence Between Chinese and African Approaches

The post-1945 world order is standardly pictured as a Westphalian system, in which each state is equal under the law with sovereign authority over its territories. This paper argues that the Westph...

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Can people extend their lives by transferring their information to a large language model that acts as their digital twin? Does that achieve the goals of life extension? For an answer, see our paper tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…

Digital Doppelgängers and Lifespan Extension: What Matters?

There is an ongoing debate about the ethics of research on lifespan extension: roughly, using medical technologies to extend biological human lives beyond the current “natural” limit of about 120 y...

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What's the role of religion in bioethics? See our just published paper (the title has a spoiler) @IABioethics @apaphilosophy @uwmnewsroom @UWMedicine @UWbioethics @UWPhilosophy @unesco #GlobalHealth @AmerSocBioHum link.springer.com/article/10…

Religion Welcome Here: A Pluriversal Approach to Religion and Global Bioethics

Journal of Bioethical Inquiry - This paper sets forth and defends a pluriversal approach to religion in the context of an increasingly global bioethics. Section I introduces a pluriversal view as a...

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Can a digital twin extend your life? Can it achieve many aims of lifespan extension? Read our new paper on this provocative topic! @uwmnewsroom @apaphilosophy @AmerSocBioHum @IABioethics @UWPhilosophy @UWMedicine @UWbioethics @AIEthicsWatch @uw_ischool tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…

Digital Doppelgängers and Lifespan Extension: What Matters?

There is an ongoing debate about the ethics of research on lifespan extension: roughly, using medical technologies to extend biological human lives beyond the current “natural” limit of about 120 y...

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What makes someone a person with moral dignity and worth? See my new paper w/ @atuire that explores this from African and Western standpoint and proposes a new view EMERGENT PERSONHOOD @WHO #iab @uwmnewsroom @UW @apaphilosophy @AmerSocBioHum onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…

Personhood: An emergent view from Africa and the West

African understandings of personhood are complex, with different accounts emphasizing distinct aspects of what it means to be a person. Some accounts stress excellence of character and performing...

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A wonderful piece by colleague Harald Schmidt on "Equity in global bioethics scholarship and practice: walking the talk, together" jme.bmj.com/content/50/9/583

Equity in global bioethics scholarship and practice: walking the talk, together

Earlier this year, the International Association of Bioethics (IAB) hosted the biennial World Congress of Bioethics (WCB) in Doha, Qatar. Understandably, controversy surrounded the decision to hold...

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Bioethics must address war as a public health crisis. See my essay for The Hastings Center Bioethics Forum on how the tools and methods of bioethics can help (with Caesar Atuire, Vardit Ravitsky, Kevin Behrens, and Mohammed Ghaly) thehastingscenter.org/bioeth…

Bioethics Must Address War as a Public Health Crisis : The Hastings Center for Bioethics

Today’s wars kill far more civilians than soldiers. Bioethics must address war not just as an individual tragedy but as a public health disaster.

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War is a public heath crisis —how can bioethics help to address it?! see my just published AJOB paper with @VarditRavitsky , @atuire , Behrens, Ghaly @uwmnewsroom @UWMedicine @UWbioethics @UWPhilosophy @uwnews @AmerSocBioHum @apaphilosophy tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…

War, Bioethics, and Public Health

This paper argues that bioethics as a field should broaden its scope to include the ethics of war, focusing on war’s public health effects. The “Introduction” section describes the bioethics litera...

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Can bioethics contribute to war? See our AJOB paper! @UWPhilosophy @UWbioethics @UWMedicine @AmerSocBioHum @apaphilosophy @UW @IABioethics @UNESCO @WHO @VarditRavitsky @atuire @IBioethics #Ethics #UkraineRussiaWar #MiddleEast @uwmnewsroom tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…

War, Bioethics, and Public Health

This paper argues that bioethics as a field should broaden its scope to include the ethics of war, focusing on war’s public health effects. The “Introduction” section describes the bioethics litera...

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Nancy S. Jecker, Ph.D. retweeted
Vardit Ravitsky@VarditRavitsky3 Jun 2024
Welcome to our new President of the @IABioethics, Dr. @atuire! Thank you for taking on this tremendous responsibility at this challenging time. Thank you for your inspiring powerful Presidential Address at the 17th World Congress of Bioethics. Looking forward to your leadership !
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Replying to @amurali284 @profjecker @atuire
Alexander Capron on "A Historical Glimpse Back at the Early Days of the International Association of Bioethics" at #wcb2024
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Murali@amurali2843 Jun 2024
Replying to @amurali284 @profjecker
Incoming president @atuire of the IAB giving his inaugural address at #wcb2024
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Excited to be kicking off the 17th World Congress of Bioethics in Doha, Qatar with incoming IAB President, Caesar Atuire! @atuire @UWbioethics @UWMedicine @UWPhilosophy @apaphilosophy @AmerSocBioHum
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Nancy S. Jecker, Ph.D. retweeted
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Luminaries who project AI as catastrophic to humankind do a disservice to the public by distracting from societal problems that AI is causing today, says a new journal paper led by Nancy Jecker (@profjecker) @UWbioethics. Read>>tinyurl.com/2vnt5crc
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Is AI a threat to humanity on a part with nuclear weaponry and climate change? See our just published paper! @uwmnewsroom @uw_ischool @apaphilosophy @AmerSocBioHum @UWMedicine @UWPhilosophy @UWbioethics jme.bmj.com/content/medethic…
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See our just published editorial on the ethics of conferencing in Qatar @uwmnewsroom @apaphilosophy @UWPhilosophy @UWbioethics @IABioethics @AmerSocBioHum tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…

Bioethics’ Duty to Conference in Qatar: Reply to Magnus

Published in The American Journal of Bioethics (Vol. 24, No. 4, 2024)

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Can digital humans help lonely people? See our just published paper @uwmnewsroom @UWMedicine @apaphilosophy @AmerSocBioHum @UWPhilosophy onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…

Digital Humans to Combat Loneliness and Social Isolation: Ethics Concerns and Policy Recommendations

Social isolation and loneliness are growing concerns around the globe that put people at increased risk of disease and early death. One much-touted approach to addressing them is deploying artifici...

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