Rebecca Dresser is Daniel Noyes Kirby Professor of Law Emerita at WashU Law. Since 1983, Rebecca Dresser has taught medical and law students about legal and ethical issues in end-of-life care, biomedical research, genetics, assisted reproduction, and related topics. Her 2017 book, Silent Partners: Human Subjects and Research Ethics, calls for including experienced study subjects in research deliberations and policy making. She is also the author of When Science Offers Salvation: Patient Advocacy and Research Ethics (Oxford University Press, 2001) and editor of Malignant: Medical Ethicists Confront Cancer (Oxford University Press, 2012). From 2002-2009, she was a member of the President’s Council on Bioethics.
