Lessons from the Injured Brain:
Bioethics Meets Neuroscience
.jpg) Joseph J. Fins, leading Neuroethicist, Chief of the division of Medical Ethics, Weill Medical College. Past appointee to The White House Commission on Complementary and Alternative Medicine Policy.
Thursday September 25, 2008 (7:00PM)
Halifax Infirmary, QE II Royal Bank Theatre,
1796 Summer Street, Halifax
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Ever since the case of Karen Ann Quinlan, the vegetative state has been linked to the right to die. New scientific findings, however, suggest that some patients who may appear vegetative are in fact minimally conscious and have the capacity for functional improvement. How do we preserve the right to die and still affirm the right to care for patients with severe brain injury who may harbour the prospect of recovery? How do we avoid the ideological entanglements of Schiavo and have science inform our deliberations about research and care? In Lessons from the Injured Brain: Bioethics meets Neuroscience, Dr. Joseph Fins will explore the biology and bioethics of disorders of consciousness from his perspective as an investigator in this field trying to improve the lot of patients and families touched by severe brain injury.
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Selected articles by Dr. Fins:
1. Fins JJ, Shapiro ZE. Neuroimaging and neuroethics: clinical and policy considerations. Curr Opin Neurol 2007; 20(6):650-654. Available from: PM:17992084.
2. Schiff ND, Fins JJ. Deep brain stimulation and cognition: moving from animal to patient. Curr Opin Neurol 2007; 20(6):638-642. Available from: PM:17992082.
3. Fins JJ, Master MG, Gerber LM, Giacino JT. The minimally conscious state: a diagnosis in search of an epidemiology. Arch Neurol 2007; 64(10):1400-1405. Available from: PM:17923624.
4. Fins JJ, Schiff ND. Shades of gray: new insights into the vegetative state. Hastings Cent Rep 2006; 36(6):8. Available from: PM:17278863.
5. Fins JJ, Schiff ND, Foley KM. Late recovery from the minimally conscious state: ethical and policy implications. Neurology 2007; 68(4):304-307. Available from: PM:17242341.
6. Fins JJ. The portrayal of coma in contemporary motion pictures. Neurology 2007; 68(1):79. Available from: PM:17200501.
7. Fins JJ, Rezai AR, Greenberg BD. Psychosurgery: avoiding an ethical redux while advancing a therapeutic future. Neurosurgery 2006; 59(4):713-716. Available from: PM:17038936.
8. Fins JJ. Affirming the right to care, preserving the right to die: disorders of consciousness and neuroethics after Schiavo. Palliat Support Care 2006; 4(2):169-178. Available from: PM:16903588.
9. Fins JJ. Baseball and bioethics. Camb Q Healthc Ethics 2005; 14(4):434-443. Available from: PM:16250498.
10. Fins JJ, Schiff ND. The afterlife of Terri Schiavo. Hastings Cent Rep 2005; 35(4):8. Available from: PM:16225295.
11. Fins JJ. The Orwellian threat to emerging neurodiagnostic technologies. Am J Bioeth 2005; 5(2):56-58. Available from: PM:16036705.
12. Fins JJ. Everyday disasters. Camb Q Healthc Ethics 2005; 14(2):207-213. Available from: PM:15887813.
13. Fins JJ, Plum F. Neurological diagnosis is more than a state of mind: diagnostic clarity and impaired consciousness. Arch Neurol 2004; 61(9):1354-1355. Available from: PM:15364678.
14. Fins JJ. From psychosurgery to neuromodulation and palliation: history's lessons for the ethical conduct and regulation of neuropsychiatric research. Neurosurg Clin N Am 2003; 14(2):303-30x. Available from: PM:12856496.
15. Fins JJ. The ethical limits of neuroscience. Lancet Neurol 2002; 1(4):213. Available from: PM:12849453.
16. Fins JJ. Constructing an ethical stereotaxy for severe brain injury: balancing risks, benefits and access. Nat Rev Neurosci 2003; 4(4):323-327. Available from: PM:12671648.
17. Fins JJ, von GC. When the prognosis leads to indifference. J Palliat Med 2002; 5(4):571-573. Available from: PM:12243684.
18. Schiff ND, Ribary U, Moreno DR, Beattie B, Kronberg E, Blasberg R et al. Residual cerebral activity and behavioural fragments can remain in the persistently vegetative brain. Brain 2002; 125(Pt 6):1210-1234. Available from: PM:12023311.
19. Fins JJ, Schiff ND. Diagnosis and treatment of traumatic brain injury. JAMA 2000; 283(18):2392. Available from: PM:10815079.
20. Fins JJ. A proposed ethical framework for interventional cognitive neuroscience: a consideration of deep brain stimulation in impaired consciousness. Neurol Res 2000; 22(3):273-278. Available from: PM:10769820.
21. Fins JJ. What medicine and the law should do for the physician-assisted suicide debate. CCAR J 1997; 44(2):46-53. Available from: PM:15712422.
22. Fins JJ. From indifference to goodness. J Relig Health 1996; 35(3):245-254. Available from: PM:11654980.
23. Fins JJ. Physician-Assisted Suicide and the Right to Care. Cancer Control 1996; 3(3):272-278. Available from: PM:10765219.
24. Fins JJ, Bacchetta MD. Framing the physician-assisted suicide and voluntary active euthanasia debate: the role of deontology, consequentialism, and clinical pragmatism. J Am Geriatr Soc 1995; 43(5):563-568. Available from: PM:7730541.
25. Fins JJ. Across the divide: religious objections to brain death. J Relig Health 1995; 34(1):33-39. Available from: PM:11652895.
26. Fins JJ. Praxis makes perfect? Hastings Cent Rep 1993; 23(5):16-19. Available from: PM:7710462.
27. Fins JJ. An acute care response to chronic care: the American perspective. Cas Lek Cesk 1993; 132(7):197-199. Available from: PM:8485760.
28. Fins JJ, Hart CW, . The rationing of health care: a doctor's dilemma. J Relig Health 1993; 32(1):9-20. Available from: PM:11651545.
29. Fins JJ. When the limits are not their own: why the elderly must participate in health care reform. J Am Geriatr Soc 1993; 41(4):462-463. Available from: PM:8463538.
30. Fins JJ. The Patient Self-Determination Act and patient-physician collaboration in New York State. N Y State J Med 1992; 92(11):489-493. Available from: PM:1488205.
31. Fins JJ, Callahan D. Palliation in the age of chronic disease. Hastings Cent Rep 1992; 22(1):41-42. Available from: PM:1371986.
32. Fins JJ. How many hours? Hastings Cent Rep 1990; 20(2):3-4. Available from: PM:2318628. |
