Nancy Ann Silbergeld Jecker (born October 25, 1960) is a bioethicist, philosopher, and author.
She was awarded the PhD in philosophy from the University of Washington (1986) [1] Jecker has published over 200 journal articles and chapters and 5 books.
Her research focuses on justice, personhood and human dignity, individual and societal aging, medical futility, and global perspectives in philosophy and bioethics.
Her other books include Wrong Medicine: Doctors, Patients and Futile Treatment, 2nd Edition [4] co-edited with Lawrence Schneiderman (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011, Japanese translation by Keiso Shobo Publishing Company 2021, Chinese translation by Ho-Chi Book Publishing Company 2015); Bioethics: An Introduction to the History, Methods, and Practice, 3rd edition, co-edited with Albert Jonsen and Robert Pearlman (Jones and Bartlett, 2012) [5]; and Aging and Ethics: Philosophical Problems in Gerontology[6] (Humana Press, 1991).
Jecker was a visiting professor at the National University of Singapore Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, Centre for Biomedical Ethics (2018); Scholar-in-residence at the Brocher Foundation [7] in Geneva, Switzerland (2017); visiting professor at The University of Bucharest Research Institute, Romania (2017); and keynote speaker at the Israeli Ministry of Health (2017).