2009
Lessons from the Injured Brain: A Bioethicist in the Vineyards of Neuroscience
Fins J. Lessons from the Injured Brain: A Bioethicist in the Vineyards of Neuroscience. Cambridge Quarterly Of Healthcare Ethics 2009, 18: 7-13. PMID: 19091140, DOI: 10.1017/s0963180108090038.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchThe ethics of measuring and modulating consciousness: the imperative of minding time
Fins J. The ethics of measuring and modulating consciousness: the imperative of minding time. Progress In Brain Research 2009, 177: 371-382. PMID: 19818915, DOI: 10.1016/s0079-6123(09)17726-9.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchMeSH KeywordsCognitionConsciousnessConsciousness DisordersCultureHistory of MedicineHumansRecovery of FunctionRight to DieConceptsMinimally conscious stateDisorders of consciousnessConscious stateView of timeHistory of medicineOver-arching metaphorModulate consciousnessFunctional neuroimagingScientific knowledgeSocial currentsVegetative patientsTemporal expectationsModern eraWilder PenfieldConsciousnessEvolving viewsBrain injuryDisordersVariable perspectiveSystems of careStatic entities
2003
Constructing an ethical stereotaxy for severe brain injury: balancing risks, benefits and access
Fins J. Constructing an ethical stereotaxy for severe brain injury: balancing risks, benefits and access. Nature Reviews Neuroscience 2003, 4: 323-327. PMID: 12671648, DOI: 10.1038/nrn1079.Peer-Reviewed Original Research
1997
What medicine and the law should do for the physician-assisted suicide debate.
Fins J. What medicine and the law should do for the physician-assisted suicide debate. CCAR Journal 1997, 44: 46-53. PMID: 15712422.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchWhat medicine and the law should do for the physician-assisted suicide debate.
Fins J. What medicine and the law should do for the physician-assisted suicide debate. CCAR Journal 1997, 46-53. PMID: 15977336.Peer-Reviewed Original Research
1995
But Is It Assisted Suicide?
Fins J, Viederman M, Nelson J. But Is It Assisted Suicide? The Hastings Center Report 1995, 25: 24-25. PMID: 7649741, DOI: 10.2307/3562110.Peer-Reviewed Original Research
1991
Sources of Concern about the Patient Self-Determination Act
Wolf S, Boyle P, Callahan D, Fins J, Jennings B, Nelson J, Barondess J, Brock D, Dresser R, Emanuel L, Johnson S, Lantos J, Mason D, Mezey M, Orentlicher D, Rouse F. Sources of Concern about the Patient Self-Determination Act. New England Journal Of Medicine 1991, 325: 1666-1671. PMID: 1944466, DOI: 10.1056/nejm199112053252334.Peer-Reviewed Original Research