Rebecca Dresser | Academic Influence

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Rebecca Dresser

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#878

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#1060

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Rebecca Dresser's Degrees

Masters Bioethics Georgetown University
Bachelors Philosophy University of California, Santa Cruz

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According to Wikipedia, Rebecca S. Dresser is an American legal scholar and medical ethicist. Dresser earned a bachelor of arts degree in psychology and sociology at Indiana University Bloomington in 1973, followed by a master's of science in education at the same institution in 1975. She then graduated from Harvard Law School in 1979. She began teaching at the Washington University in St. Louis in 1983, was appointed Daniel Noyes Kirby Professor of Law, and granted emeritus status upon retirement. Between 1992 and 1993, Dresser returned to Harvard as faculty fellow of the Safra Center for Ethics.

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Advance directives as acts of communication: a randomized controlled trial. (2001) (423)
The rule of double effect--a critique of its role in end-of-life decision making. (1997) (323)
Dworkin on dementia. Elegant theory, questionable policy. (1995) (234)
Guidelines on Forgoing Life-Sustaining Medical Treatment (2013) (179)
Wanted. Single, white male for medical research. (1992) (160)
Sources of concern about the Patient Self-Determination Act. (1991) (159)
Off-Label Prescribing: A Call for Heightened Professional and Government Oversight (2009) (140)
Quality of Life and Non-Treatment Decisions for Incompetent Patients: A Critique of the Orthodox Approach (1989) (132)
When Science Offers Salvation: Patient Advocacy and Research Ethics (2001) (124)
Mentally disabled research subjects. The enduring policy issues. (1996) (120)
THE UBIQUITY AND UTILITY OF THE THERAPEUTIC MISCONCEPTION (2002) (100)
Life, death, and incompetent patients: conceptual infirmities and hidden values in the law. (1986) (88)
First-in-Human Trial Participants: Not a Vulnerable Population, but Vulnerable Nonetheless (2009) (81)
Bound to treatment: the Ulysses contract. (1984) (76)
Missing persons: legal perceptions of incompetent patients. (1994) (66)
Advance euthanasia directives: a controversial case and its ethical implications (2018) (66)
The incompetent patient on the slippery slope. (1994) (59)
The OHRP and SUPPORT--another view. (2013) (56)
American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on Bioethics: Infants with anencephaly as organ sources: ethical considerations. (1992) (54)
Precommitment: a misguided strategy for securing death with dignity. (2003) (52)
Feeding the hunger artists: legal issues in treating anorexia nervosa. (1984) (45)
Preferences for return of incidental findings from genome sequencing among women diagnosed with breast cancer at a young age (2016) (42)
Ethics, law, and nutritional support. (1985) (41)
The Human Use of Animals: Case Studies in Ethical Choice, by F. B. ORLANS, T. L. BEAUCHAMP, R. DRESSER, D. B. MORTON & J. P. GLUCK. xi+330 pp. New York and London: Oxford University Press (1998). £20.00 (paperback). ISBN 0-19-511908-8. (1998) (40)
Ulysses and the psychiatrists: a legal and policy analysis of the voluntary commitment contract. (1982) (39)
Professionals, Conformity, and Conscience (2005) (38)
Informed consent in emergency care: illusion and reform. (1987) (38)
Public advocacy and allocation of federal funds for biomedical research. (1999) (37)
Stem Cell Research as Innovation: Expanding the Ethical and Policy Conversation (2010) (36)
Subversive Subjects: Rule-Breaking and Deception in Clinical Trials (2013) (35)
Recommendations for Nanomedicine Human Subjects Research Oversight: An Evolutionary Approach for an Emerging Field (2012) (33)
Developing standards in animal research review. (1989) (29)
Advance directives. Implications for policy. (1994) (29)
Pre-emptive suicide, precedent autonomy and preclinical Alzheimer disease (2013) (25)
Preferences for learning different types of genome sequencing results among young breast cancer patients: Role of psychological and clinical factors. (2018) (25)
Dementia research: ethics and policy for the twenty-first century. (2001) (24)
Defining scientific misconduct. The relevance of mental state. (1993) (23)
Alzheimer's Disease International and International Working Group for Harmonization of Dementia Drug Guidelines for research involving human subjects with dementia. (1999) (23)
Building an Ethical Foundation for First-in-Human Nanotrials (2012) (23)
Regulating assisted reproduction. (2000) (22)
Bioethics, Animal Research, and Ethical Theory. (1999) (22)
Bioethics and Cancer: When the Professional Becomes Personal (2011) (22)
Sterilization of Women Who Are Mentally Handicapped (1990) (21)
Advance directives in dementia research: promoting autonomy and protecting subjects. (2001) (21)
Time for new rules on human subjects research? (1998) (21)
First-in-human HIV-remission studies: reducing and justifying risk (2016) (20)
The Limits of Apology Laws (2008) (20)
Confronting the “Near Irrelevance” of Advance Directives (1994) (20)
"Right to Try" Laws: The Gap between Experts and Advocates. (2015) (20)
Dementia and Advance-Care Planning: Perspectives from Three Countries on Ethics and Epidemiology (1999) (19)
Ethical and legal issues in patenting new animal life. (1988) (19)
Standards for Family Decisions: Replacing Best Interests with Harm Prevention (2003) (18)
Payments to Research Participants: The Importance of Context (2001) (18)
Malignant: Medical Ethicists Confront Cancer (2012) (17)
Review essay / making up our minds: Can law survive cognitive science? (1991) (17)
Relitigating life and death. (1990) (17)
When Patients Resist Feeding (1985) (17)
Personal knowledge and study participation (2013) (17)
Dworkin on dementia (1995) (17)
Advance Directives and Discrimination against People with Dementia. (2018) (17)
Schiavo: A hard case makes questionable law. (2004) (16)
Designing babies: human research issues. (2004) (16)
Sanctions for research misconduct: a legal perspective (1993) (15)
Public preferences and the challenge to genetic research policy (2014) (15)
Preimplantation genetic diagnosis as medical innovation: reflections from The President's Council on Bioethics. (2006) (15)
Community Representatives and Nonscientists on the IACUC: What Difference Should It Make? (1999) (15)
Schiavo's Legacy: The Need for an Objective Standard (2005) (14)
The 'Right to Try' Investigational Drugs: Science and Stories in the Access Debate (2015) (13)
Withholding medical treatment from the severely demented patient. Decisional processes and cost implications. (1988) (13)
Genetic modification of preimplantation embryos: toward adequate human research policies. (2004) (13)
Aligning Regulations and Ethics in Human Research (2012) (12)
The Curious Case of Off-Label Use (2007) (12)
Cosmetic Reproductive Services and Professional Integrity (2001) (11)
Ethical issues in embryonic stem cell research. (2001) (11)
Legal and policy considerations in treatment of anorexia nervosa patients (1984) (11)
Psychiatric patients who refuse nourishment. (1986) (11)
ADVANCE RESEARCH DIRECTIVES: IMPLEMENTATION ISSUES (2000) (11)
Long-term contraceptives in the criminal justice system. (1995) (11)
An alert and incompetent self. The irrelevance of advance directives. (1998) (10)
Comprar The Human Use of Animals Case studies in ethical choice | Tom L. Beauchamp | 9780195340198 | Oxford University Press (2008) (10)
Research on animals: values, politics, and regulatory reform. (1985) (10)
Toward a humane death with dementia. (2014) (10)
Private-Sector Research Ethics: Marketing or Good Conflicts Management? The 2005 John J. Conley Lecture on Medical Ethics (2006) (10)
Suicide Attempts and Treatment Refusals (2010) (10)
Prenatal Testing and Disability: A Truce in the Culture Wars? (2009) (10)
Priority setting in biomedical research. (2009) (9)
Weighing the Benefits of New Alzheimer's Treatments (2000) (9)
Substituting Authenticity for Autonomy (2009) (9)
Freedom of Conscience, Professional Responsibility, and Access to Abortion (1994) (9)
Hypercalcemia of advanced malignancy: decision making and the quality of death. (1991) (9)
On Legalizing Physician-Assisted Death for Dementia. (2017) (9)
Experimentation without Representation (2018) (9)
Substituted judgment in real life (2014) (8)
Planning for future research participation: ethical and practical considerations. (1999) (8)
Pharmaceutical Company Gifts: From Voluntary Standards to Legal Demands (2006) (8)
Treatment decisions and changing selves (2014) (8)
Assessing harm and justification in animal research: federal policy opens the laboratory door. (1988) (8)
Deception research and the HHS final regulations. (1981) (8)
Elegant Theory, Questionable Policy (1995) (7)
Alive and Well: The Research Imperative (2012) (7)
Still troubled. In re Martin. (1996) (7)
Review Standards for Animal Research: A Closer Look (1990) (7)
Discontinuing nutrition support: a review of the case law. (1985) (7)
Medicare and Advance Planning: The Importance of Context. (2016) (7)
Irrational Basis: The Legal Status of Medical Marijuana (2009) (7)
Stem Cell Research: The Bigger Picture (2005) (7)
How, who, and when: preferences for delivery of genome sequencing results among women diagnosed with breast cancer at a young age (2016) (7)
The Reasonable Person Standard for Research Disclosure: A Reasonable Addition to the Common Rule (2019) (6)
Breast Implants Revisited: Beyond Science on Trial (1997) (6)
Measuring merit in animal research (1989) (6)
Law, ethics, and the patient preference predictor. (2014) (6)
Standards for animal research: looking at the middle. (1988) (6)
From Double Standard to Double Bind : Informed Choice in Abortion Law (2008) (6)
The Limited Value of Dementia-Specific Advance Directives. (2021) (6)
Brain Imaging and Courtroom Deception (2010) (6)
Obligatory running and anorexia nervosa. (1985) (5)
Setting priorities for science support. (1998) (5)
Defining research misconduct: will we know it when we see it? (2001) (5)
Commentary on "The Time Frame of Preferences, Dispositions, and the Validity of Advance Directives for the Mentally Ill" (1998) (5)
Embryonic Stem Cells: Expanding the Analysis (2002) (5)
A Deep Dive into Community Engagement (2017) (5)
A Tangled Web: Deception in Everyday Dementia Care (2021) (5)
Investigational Drugs and the Constitution (2006) (5)
Protection of Human Subjects and Scientific Progress: Can the Two Be Reconciled? (2006) (4)
Emergency Research and Research Involving Subjects with Cognitive Impairment: Ethical Connections and Contrasts (1997) (4)
Plan B: Politics and values at the FDA, again. (2004) (4)
Drugs and the death penalty. (2014) (4)
The conscious incompetent patient. (2002) (4)
Response to: ‘Dementia and advance directives: some empirical and normative concerns’ by Jongsma et al (2018) (4)
Aligning Regulations and Ethics in Human Research (2012) (4)
Patient Advocates in Research: New Possibilities, New Problems (2003) (4)
Outside the operating room--economic, regulatory, and legal challenges: a collection of perspectives and panel discussion. (2008) (4)
Families and Forensic DNA Profiles (2011) (4)
Off-label indications for medication use and the published literature. (2008) (4)
Criminal responsibility and the "genetics defense" (1999) (4)
Is informed consent always necessary for randomized, controlled trials? (1999) (4)
Enlisting the Experts: Experienced Research Participants in Study Planning (2020) (3)
What Subjects Teach: The Everyday Ethics of Human Research (2015) (3)
Respecting and Protecting Nonhuman Animals: Regan's "The Case for Animal Rights" (1984) (3)
Research oversight and adults with cognitive impairment. (2003) (3)
Neuroscience's Uncertain Threat to Criminal Law (2008) (3)
Ethical and Policy Issues in Research on Elder Abuse and Neglect (2003) (3)
Giving scientists their due. The Imanishi-Kari decision. (1997) (3)
At Law: Professionals, Conformity, and Conscience (2005) (3)
Research Subjects’ Voices: The Missing Element in Research Ethics (2015) (3)
Death with Dignity: Contested Boundaries (2004) (3)
Involuntary confinement: legal and psychiatric perspectives. (1984) (3)
Conceptual, Structural, and Practical Challenges to Ethical Allocation of Research Funds (2018) (3)
Standards for animal research: justification and assessment of alternatives. (1992) (3)
A regulatory and legal perspective: Issues in off-label device use (2008) (2)
Science in the courtroom. A new approach. (1999) (2)
Accountability in science and government: is access the answer? (2000) (2)
Protecting Women from Their Abortion Choices (2007) (2)
Drug compounding, drug safety, and the first amendment. (2013) (2)
Donation, Disclosure, and Deception (2001) (2)
Research Information for Reasonable People. (2018) (2)
Research participants with mental disabilities: The more things change. (2001) (2)
Beyond Cruzan: Dementia and the Best Interests Standard (2020) (2)
Clinical trial registration and the ICMJE. (2005) (2)
Inclusion, Access, and Civility in Public Bioethics. (2017) (2)
Human cloning and the FDA. (2003) (2)
Treatment Decisions for Incapacitated Patients (2007) (2)
Integrating social and ethics-based aspects of medicine into physician education. (2004) (1)
The ethics of genetic intervention: human research and blurred species boundaries. (2002) (1)
Physician risk preferences and patient care. (1988) (1)
Beyond Disability: Bioethics and Patient Advocacy (2001) (1)
Case Studies: Saying 'No' to Electroshock (1982) (1)
The Sex Kitten of Bioethics?: Research Ethics Comes of Age (2008) (1)
Dementia and the Death Penalty. (2019) (1)
The public context of private medical decisions. (1994) (1)
Ethics of Proxy Consent for Research Involving Patients With Adult Respiratory Distress Syndrome-Reply (1996) (1)
A Terrifying Truth (2013) (1)
A Fate Worse Than Death?: How Biomarkers for Alzheimer's Disease Could Affect End-of-Life Choices (2016) (1)
Precommitment Devices: A Defensible Treatment for Opioid Addiction? (2020) (1)
The UN Challenge to Guardianship and Surrogate Decision-Making. (2022) (1)
Germline Genetic Modification (2008) (1)
Procreation and punishment. (2001) (1)
A status elevation for Great Apes. (2012) (1)
Ourselves, with Dementia. (2022) (1)
Social Justice in New Reproductive Techniques (1985) (1)
CREATION AND ABORTION: A STUDY IN MORAL AND LEGAL PHILOSOPHY. By Frances Myrna Kamm.1 (1992) (1)
A New Era in Drug Regulation? (2005) (1)
Surfing for studies. Clinical trials on the Internet. (1999) (1)
Trust and the Ethics of Health Care Institutions (2001) (1)
Scientists in the sunshine. (1997) (1)
Ethics, Law, and Nutritional Support-Reply (1985) (1)
The incompetent self: metamorphosis of a person? (1998) (1)
W. Jean Dodds and F. Barbara Orlans (eds.): 1982 Scientific Perspectives on Animal Welfare, Academic Press, New York, 131 pp. (1984) (1)
Autonomy and Its Limits in End-of-Life Law (2017) (1)
Ethical Dilemmas in Cancer Chemotherapy Choices (2008) (0)
Is Nature Enough? A Symposium Exploring the Ethics of Human Enhancement (2010) (0)
Medical choices and changing selves (2023) (0)
Noncompliant research participants: Ethical issues and responses (2012) (0)
A Tale of Two Disciplines: Law and Bioethics (2017) (0)
Animal Rights Review (1999) (0)
Subjects of the state (2004) (0)
Protecting posthumous children. (2002) (0)
Contributors (2005) (0)
Special Section: Alpha and Omega: Ethics at the Edges of Life (2009) (0)
Gene Patenting Panel (2014) (0)
Case Study. Sexuality and a severely brain-injured spouse. Commentary. (2010) (0)
More than Meets the IRB : Conversation with Rebecca Dresser (2012) (0)
Protecting Posthumous Children. (at Law) (2002) (0)
Protection of human subjects and scientific progress: can the two be reconciled? (2006) (0)
Regulation of animal experimentation. (1986) (0)
Sexuality and a Severely Brain-Injured Spouse (2010) (0)
Useful Bodies: Humans in the Service of Medical Science Edited by Jordan Goodman, Anthony McElligott and Lara Marks (2004) (0)
Ralph H. Lutts The Wild Animal Story Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1998, 302 pp. Howard Lyman Mad Cowboy (1997) (0)
Surfing for Studies (1999) (0)
The sex kitten of bioethics? Research ethics comes of age. (2008) (0)
The DES Disaster and Other Hazards (1985) (0)
Schiavo and Contemporary Myths about Dying (2007) (0)
Baboon-to-human transplants: should we proceed? (1995) (0)
Procreation and Punishment. (at Law) (2001) (0)
Clinical trial registration and the ICMJE. Author's reply (2005) (0)
Government Priorities for Biomedical Research: What Does Justice Require? (2000) (0)
Bioethics, science, and politics. (2004) (0)
Edmund Pellegrino and the Art of Civilized Dialectics (2014) (0)
Advocacy and Research (2020) (0)
Sunday Dialogue (2019) (0)
Dementia, Disability, and Advance Medical Directives: Defensible Standards for Dementia Care (2020) (0)
More than meets the IRB – Participant autonomy and volunteerism in human subjects research (2012) (0)
The Role of Advance Treatment Directives in Health Care Policy (1984) (0)
Directives as Acts of Communication A Randomized Controlled Trial (2001) (0)
"So much for that" by Lionel Shriver. Commentary. (2015) (0)
Public & Private: Redrawing Boundaries (1994) (0)
Human Cloning and the FDA. (at Law) (2003) (0)
CURRENT TOPICS IN BIOMEDICAL ETHICS -- Introduction (1995) (0)
Commentary on Zvonareva et al. (2015) (0)
Cruzan after Dobbs: What Remains of the Constitutional Right to Refuse Treatment? (2023) (0)
Contributors (1991) (0)
Wisdom in Self-Scrutiny (2004) (0)
Beyond Government Intervention: Drug Companies and Bioethics (2002) (0)
The Varieties of Consent (2011) (0)
Contributors (1977) (0)
The Conscious Incompetent Patient. (at Law) (2002) (0)
Putting the Ethical Principles into Practice (2020) (0)
Metaphysics and Morals: Moore's Medicine for a Misunderstood Marriage (1985) (0)
Public Access to Federally Funded Grant Proposals (1995) (0)
Weighing the benefits of new Alzheimer's treatments. (2000) (0)
Advocacy, Oversight, and Research Ethics (2002) (0)
Funds for research on conditions primarily affecting women: what is a "fair share"? (1999) (0)
At Law: A New Era in Drug Regulation? (2005) (0)

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