Donna L. Dickenson (born 1946) is an American philosopher who specializes in medical ethics.

[1] She has written over 20 books on the subject, including Bioethics: All That Matters (a short introduction) (2012); Me Medicine vs. We Medicine: Reclaiming Biotechnology for the Common Good (2013), Moral Luck in Medical Ethics and Practical Politics (1991), Risk and Luck in Medical Ethics (2003), Property in the Body: Feminist Perspectives (2007), and Body Shopping: Converting Body Parts to Profit (2009).

[2] Dickenson is an alumna of Choate Rosemary Hall in Connecticut and Wellesley College in Massachusetts, where her B.A.

In 1974, she took up a post at the Open University in the UK, and later obtained her doctorate in philosophy with a study on moral luck in ethics and politics.

[2] She worked as a lecturer at the Open University for 22 years; during that time she developed a nationwide course on death and dying, funded by the Department of Health to disseminate new advances in palliative care and ethical issues to a wider public.