| | | Name: | Leslie A. Meltzer, JD | Title: | Greenwall Fellow Class of 2008 | Contact: | The Berman Institute of Bioethics
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Biographical Sketch | | Leslie A. Meltzer earned her JD at Yale Law School, her MSc in the History of Medicine at University of Oxford, and her BA summa cum laude in both History and Medical Ethics at University of Virginia. She is currently a doctoral candidate in the Department of Religious Studies (bioethics specialization) at University of Virginia. Ms. Meltzer’s undergraduate and Masters theses focused on research ethics, an area of interest that she has pursued in her service on the Yale Institutional Review Board, at the NIH Office of Human Subjects Research, and as Chair of the American Society for Bioethics’ research ethics subcommittee. In her doctoral research, Ms. Meltzer is exploring the concept of “dignity”, its various interpretations in bioethics and throughout history, and the degree to which it has any moral force as a normative concept. She plans to elaborate on this work in her scholarship as a Greenwall fellow. Drawing on her philosophical, legal and theological training, she will examine how dignity is used at the edges of life, how it differs from notions of personhood, autonomy and identity, and whether rationality and/or sentience are prerequisites to possessing dignity. |
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