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Rebecca Dresser

  • Beyond Disadvantage: Disability, Law and Bioethics

    Dementia, Disability, and Advance Medical Directives

    By Rebecca Dresser Anyone fortunate enough to live beyond middle age faces a risk of developing dementia. Dementia is a widely feared disability. People often say they wouldn’t want to live if they developed the…

    Dementia, Disability, and Advance Medical Directives

  • Bioethics

    Patients in Research: What the Professionals Don’t Get

    By Rebecca Dresser When scientists and doctors get together to talk about accelerating medical advances, someone inevitably brings up the need for more research subjects.  Not enough patients are participating in clinical trials, experts complain. …

    Patients in Research: What the Professionals Don’t Get