Lynn A Jansen, Ph.D.

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Summary of Current Research

Lynn A. Jansen, RN, PhD is the inaugural appointment to this Chair. Most recently Senior Medical Ethicist at St. Vincent's Catholic Medical Center in New York City and Research Associate Professor of Medicine and Executive Director and Chair of the John J. Conley Center for Ethics at New York Medical College, she brings a wealth of clinical and research experience to her new role.

Selected Publications

"Two concepts of therapeutic optimism," Journal of Medical Ethics (Vol: 37, Issue: 9, Page 563-566) - 2011

"Unrealistic optimism in early-phase oncology trials," IRB Ethics and Human Research (Vol: 33, Issue: 1, Page 1-8) - 2011

"Intractable End-of-Life Suffering and the Ethics of Palliative Sedation: A Commentary on Cassell and Rich," Pain Medicine (Vol: 11, Issue: 3, Page 440-441) - 2010

"Disambiguating clinical intentions: The ethics of palliative sedation," Journal of Medicine and Philosophy (Vol: 35, Issue: 1, Page 19-31) - 2010

"Ascribing intentions in clinical decision-making," Journal of Medical Ethics (Vol: 36, Issue: 1, Page 2-6) - 2010

"The ethics of altruism in clinical research," Hastings Center Report (Vol: 39, Issue: 4, Page 26-36) - 2009

"Consensus and independent judgment in clinical ethics: Or what can an eighteenth-century french mathematician teach us about ethics consultation?," Journal of Clinical Ethics (Vol: 20, Issue: 1, Page 56-63) - 2009

"Paternalism and fairness in clinical research," Bioethics (Vol: 23, Issue: 3, Page 172-182) - 2009

"Doctor vs. scientist?," Hastings Center Report (Vol: 38, Issue: 2, Page 3-) - 2008

"The problem with optimism in clinical trials," IRB Ethics and Human Research (Vol: 28, Issue: 4, Page 13-19) - 2006

"Hastening death and the boundaries of the self," Bioethics (Vol: 20, Issue: 2, Page 105-111) - 2006

"Lynn Jansen replies [9]," Hastings Center Report (Vol: 36, Issue: 1, Page 9-) - 2006

"A closer look at the bad deal trial: Beyond clinical equipoise," Hastings Center Report (Vol: 35, Issue: 5, Page 29-36) - 2005

"Local IRBs, multicenter trials, and the ethics of internal amendments," IRB Ethics and Human Research (Vol: 27, Issue: 4, Page 7-11) - 2005

"HIV exceptionalism, CD4+ cell testing, and conscientious subversion," Journal of Medical Ethics (Vol: 31, Issue: 6, Page 322-326) - 2005

"Ethics Charter from American Academy of Pain Medicine," Pain Medicine (Vol: 6, Issue: 3, Page 203-212) - 2005

"Child Organ Donation, Family Autonomy, and Intimate Attachments," Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics (Vol: 13, Issue: 2, Page 133-142) - 2004

"Of self-determination, care by proxy, and new techniques," Pain Medicine (Vol: 5, Issue: 1, Page 94-97) - 2004

"No safe harbor: The principle of complicity and the practice of voluntary stopping of eating and drinking," Journal of Medicine and Philosophy (Vol: 29, Issue: 1, Page 61-74) - 2004

"Biothics, confflics of interest, the limits of transpare," Hastings Center Report (Vol: 33, Issue: 4, Page 40-43) - 2003

"The moral irrelevance of proximity to death," Journal of Clinical Ethics (Vol: 14, Issue: 1-2, Page 49-58) - 2003

"Physician involvement in voluntary stopping of eating and drinking [4] (multiple letters)," Annals of Internal Medicine (Vol: 137, Issue: 12, Page 1010-1011) - 2002

"Careful conversation about care at the end of life [3] (multiple letters)," Annals of Internal Medicine (Vol: 137, Issue: 12, Page 1008-1010) - 2002

"Sedation, alimentation, hydration, and equivocation: Careful conversation about care at the end of life," Annals of Internal Medicine (Vol: 136, Issue: 11, Page 845-849) - 2002

"Proportionality, terminal suffering and the restorative goals of medicine," Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics (Vol: 23, Issue: 4-5, Page 321-337) - 2002