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Fins, Joseph Jack
 (212) 746-9663  (212) 746-4609

Recent peer reviewed articles and publications

  1. Fins JJ and Solomon MZ. Communication in Intensive Care Settings: The Challenge of Futility Disputes. Critical Care Medicine 2001;29 (Suppl.):N10-N15.

  2. Fins JJ and Schachter M. Investigators, industry and the heuristic device. Ethics, patent law and ethical innovation. Journal Accountability in Research: Policies and Quality Assurance 2001; 8(3): 219-233.

  3. Fins JJ. Vowing to Care. Journal of Pain and Symptom Management 2002;23(1):54-57

  4. Wood EB, Meekin SA, Fins JJ and Fleischman AR. Enhancing Palliative Care Education in Medical School Curricula: Implementation of the Palliative Education Assessment Tool. Academic Medicine 2002;77(4): 285-291.

  5. Schiff ND, Ribary U, Moreno DR, Beattie B, Kronberg E, Blasberg R, Giacino J, McCagg C, Fins JJ, Llinas R and Plum F. Residual Cerebral Activity and Behavioural Fragments Can Remain in the Persistently Vegetative Brain. Brain 2002;125:1210-1234.

  6. Fins JJ. When the Prognosis Leads to Indifference. Journal of Palliative Medicine 2002;5(4):571-573.

  7. Fins JJ and Schachter M. Patently Controversial: Markets, Morals, and the President's Proposal for Embryonic Stem Cell Research. Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal 2002;12(3):265-278.

  8. Maltby BS, Fins JJ. Informing the patient-proxy covenant: An educational approach for advance care planning. Innovations in End-of-Life Care 2003;5(2):www.edc.org/lastacts.

  9. DiMichele D, Miller FG and Fins JJ. Gene therapy ethics and haemophilia: An inevitable future? Haemophilia 2003;9(2): 145-152.

  10. Tash JA, Applegarth LD, Kerr SM, Fins JJ, Rosenwaks Z and Schlegel PN. Post-Mortem Sperm Procurement: The Effect of Instituting Guidelines. The Journal of Urology, Vol. 169, No. 4. April 2003, p. 410, Abstract 1530.

  11. Fins JJ, Gentilesco BJ, Carver A, Lister P, Acres CA, Payne R and Storey-Johnson C. Reflective Practice and Palliative Care Education: A Clerkship responds to the Informal and Hidden Curriculum. Academic Medicine 2003;78(3):307-312.

  12. Fins JJ. Constructing an Ethical Stereotaxy for Severe Brain Injury: Balancing Risks, Benefits and Access. Nature Reviews Neuroscience 2003;4: 323-327.

  13. Fins JJ. Legislating Evidence-Based Cancer Care. The Oncologist 2003; 8(2):128-31.

  14. Fins JJ. Removing the Mask. The Hastings Center Report 2003;33(2): 12-13.

  15. Fins JJ. From Psychosurgery to Neuromodulation and Palliation: History's Lessons for the Ethical Conduct and Regulation of Neuropsychiatric Research. Neurosurgery Clinics of North America 2003;14(2): 303-319.

  16. Tash JA, Applegarth LD, Kerr SM, Fins JJ, Rosenwaks Z and Schlegel, PN. Post-Mortem Sperm Retrieval: The effect of instituting guidelines. The Journal of Urology 2003; 170(5): 1922-1925.

  17. Fins, J.J. and Gardner, D. Data Sharing IV: Ethics of data sharing. Program, The Human Brain Project Conference 2003: 50.

  18. Eachempati SR, Miller FG and Fins JJ. The surgical intensivist as mediator of end-of-life issues in the care of critically ill patients. Journal of the American College of Surgeons 2003;197(5): 847-853.

  19. Gardner, D. and Fins, J.J. Neuroscience data sharing II: Ethical perspectives. Soc. Neurosci. Abstr. 29: Program No. 428.6, 2003.

  20. Fins JJ. Deep Brain Stimulation. In, Encyclopedia of Bioethics, 3rd Edition. Post, SG, Editor-in-Chief. New York: MacMillan Reference. Volume 2, pp. 629-634.

  21. Raik B, Miller FG and Fins JJ. Screening and Cognitive Impairment: Ethics of Forgoing Mammography in the Older Woman. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. In Press.

  22. Maltby BS, Fins JJ. Informing the patient-proxy covenant: An educational approach for advance care planning. Journal of Palliative Medicine. In Press. (peer-reviewed and republished version of an on-line publication, above # 74)

  23. Mininberg DT, Thompson N, Gillers D and Fins JJ. The Art of Death and Dying: Medical Education in The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Egyptian Art Galleries. Academic Medicine. In Press.

Recent books, chapters, essays

  1. Fins JJ. Truth Telling and Reciprocity in the Doctor-Patient Relationship: A North American Perspective. In, Topics in Palliative Care Volume 5. Bruera E and Portenoy RK, eds. New York: Oxford University Press. 2001. pp. 81-94.

  2. Barie PS, Bacchetta MD, Fins JJ, and Eachempati SR. Research in the Intensive Care Unit: Methodological and Ethical Issues. In, Surgical Research. Souba WW and Wilmore D, eds. San Diego: Academic Press. 2001. pp. 137-154.

  3. Miller FG, Fins JJ, and Snyder L. Assisted Suicide and Refusal of Treatment: Valid Distinction? In, Assisted Suicide: Finding Common Ground. Snyder L and Caplan AL, eds. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 2002. pp. 17-28. (Reprint of Peer-Reviewed Article # 58)

  4. Fins JJ. A 38-year-old man with a secondary leukemia who needs setting of goals of care. In: Heffner JE, Byock I, eds. Palliative and End-of-Life Pearls. Philadelphia; Hanley and Belfus. 2002. pp. 174-176.

  5. Fins JJ and Schachter M. Investigators, Industry and the Heuristic Device. In, Business and Research. Proceedings of the Third National Conference on the Business of Human Experiments: Ethical, Legal and Regulatory Issues. Shamoo AE and Moreno J, eds. New York: Taylor & Francis. 2002. pp 91-105. (Reprint of Peer-Reviewed Article # 68)

  6. Brenner D, Blanchard T, Fins JJ and Hirschfield B. Embracing Life and Facing Death: A Jewish Guide to Palliative Care. New York: CLAL- The National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership. 2002.

  7. Fins JJ and Schachter M. Patently Controversial: Markets, Morals, and the President's Proposal for Embryonic Stem Cell Research. In, Informational and Decisional Privacy. Schachter, M, ed. Durham: Carolina Academic Press. 2003. pp. 760-769. (Reprint of Peer-Reviewed Article # 73)

  8. Agrawal SK and Fins JJ. Ethics Committees and Case Consultation in the Hospital Setting. In, A Guide to Hospitals and Inpatient Care. Siegler E, Mirafzali S and Foust JB, editors. New York: Springer. 2003.

  9. Fins JJ, Peres J, Schumacher JD. On the Road from Theory to Practice: Progressing Towards Seamless Palliative Care. Washington, D.C.: Last Acts National Program Office, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. 2003.

  10. Fins JJ and Maltby BS. Fidelity, Wisdom, and Love: Patients and Proxies in Partnership, Interactive Workbook and Educational Video. New York: Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Foundation. 2003.

  11. Fins JJ. From Contract to Covenant in Advance Care Planning. In, Caring for the Dying. Baird RM and Rosenbaum SE, editors. Amherst, New York: Prometheus Books. 2003. (Reprint of Peer-Reviewed Article # 53)

  12. Fins JJ. What Hospital Trustees can Learn from Ethics Committees: An Essay on Pragmatism, Ethics and the Governance of Health Care Organizations. In, The Ethics of Hospital Trusteeship: Responsible Governanc of the Not-for-Profit Hospital. Jennings B, Gray BH, Sharpe VA, and Fleischman AR eds. Washington DC: Georgetown University. In Press.

  13. Schiff ND and Fins JJ. Mending the Brain, Minding our Ethics: Taking Severe Brain Injury to Heart. The Dana Foundation. Cerebrum. Solicited for publication. Under review.
   
   
 

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