Nancy M.P. King is a lawyer and Professor at the Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Department of Social Sciences & Health Policy. Her scholarship focuses on bioethics and health law, focusing on roles and responsibilities in health-care decisions, human subject research ethics, and “everyday ethics.” She has worked extensively on informed consent in health care, neonatal intensive care, experimental technologies, international research ethics and end-of-life decision-making. She is currently researching the benefit of human gene transfer research and the ethical, legal and social implications of large-sample gene discovery and disclosure. She wrote Making Sense of Advance Directives (Georgetown University Press, 1996) and co-edited Beyond Regulations: Ethics in Human Subjects Research (UNC Press 1999) and The Social Medicine Reader (Duke University Press, 1997).
| Website | http://www.wakehealth.edu/Faculty/King-Nancy-MP.htm |
| Email address | nmpking@wakehealth.edu |
| Phone number | 336-716-4289 |
| Categories | Bioethics, education, Government & politics, Health care, Law & courts, Medical ethics, Science & health, Society & culture |
| Locations | North Carolina, United States of America |
| Languages | English |