Adrienne Asch

Asch died at her Manhattan home in 2013, age 67, from cancer.

In an article in The American Journal of Public Health in 1999, Asch discussed the topic of prenatal testing for disabilities:

She received a bachelor's degree in philosophy from Swarthmore College in 1969 and a master's degree in social work from Columbia University in 1973. She opened her own private practice in 1979. Before studying for her Ph.D. in social psychology in Columbia University, which she received in 1992, she worked in the New York State Division of Human Rights as an investigator of employment discrimination cases. Asch also trained as a family therapist, and earned a certificate from the Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy in 1981.

Adrienne Asch (September 17, 1946 – November 19, 2013) was a bioethics scholar and the founding director of the Center for Ethics at Yeshiva University in New York City. She was also the Edward and Robin Milstein Professor of Bioethics at the Wurzweiler School of Social Work and Professor of Epidemiology and Population Health at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, which are both graduate professional schools at Yeshiva University. She also held professorships in epidemiology and population health and in family and social medicine at Yeshiva's Albert Einstein College of Medicine.

Asch was born in New York City to Ruth Asch (née Posner) and Julian Asch in 1946. Her birth was premature, and she became blind at a few weeks old from retinopathy of prematurity as a result of too much oxygen in her incubator. Asch grew up in Ramsey, New Jersey, where she attended school in the Ramsey Public School District.