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I'm a bioethics professor at Penn where I teach & write about ethics in behavioral healthcare and psychiatric research. Tweets mostly about music for a bit.
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Medical Ethics Unpacked: The History and Ethics of Brain Death

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By Steve LeVine Verified, Steve Levine Verified, Dominic Sisti
| consultantlive.com
In this episode of Medical Ethics Unpacked, Dominic Sisti, PhD, of Penn Medicine, and Steve Levine, MD, of Compass Pathways, talk with Arthur Caplan, PhD, the founding head of the Division of Medical Ethics at NYU Langone Medical Center, about how the concept of brain death was built and why it still generates controversy 50 years later. Before ventilators, death was simple to diagnose.
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Trump’s homelessness plan could revive forced psychiatric commitment

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By Dominic Sisti
| The Philadelphia Inquirer Verified
For most of our nation’s history, involuntary psychiatric commitment operated with sweeping and often unchecked power: State hospitals confined people for years or even lifetimes based on such broad claims as mental illness and “moral defect,” often with little legal recourse.
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Clinical Ethics Consultation in Practice, With Aliza Narva, JD, MSN

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By Aliza Narva, Dominic Sisti
| consultantlive.com
In this Q&A, Dominic Sisti, PhD, from Penn Medicine, speaks with Aliza Narva, JD, MSN, the director of ethics at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, about her path from law and nursing to clinical ethics consultation and how ethics services function in practice at Penn Medicine. Narva discusses the interdisciplinary process behind ethics consults, including chart review, engagement with care teams, and conversations with patients and families.
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