Cruzan Thirty Years Later: Neuroscience and a Reconsideration of a Landmark Right-to-Die Case
The Solomon Center Distinguished Scholar in Medicine, Bioethics, and the Law, Dr. Joseph J. Fins will explore how advances in neuroscience and disability law require us to rethink the major Supreme Court case on the "right-to-die."
Joseph J. Fins, M.D., M.A.C.P., F.R.C.P., is The E. William Davis, Jr. M.D. Professor of Medical Ethics and Chief of the Division of Medical Ethics at Weill Cornell Medical College where he is a Tenured Professor of Medicine and co-director of the Consortium for the Advanced Study of Brain Injury (CASBI). At Yale Law School he is the SolomonCenter Distinguished Scholar in Medicine, Bioethics, and the Law. Dr. Fins directs the Solomon Center's Brain Injury Project, an interdisciplinary working group that utilizes advances in neuroscience to construct novel legal theories in disability law in order to advocate for patients and families marginalized by severe brain injury. |
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Weill Cornell Medicine
Dr. Joseph J. FinsE. William Davis, Jr. M.D. Professor of Medical Ethics and Chief of the Division of Medical Ethics at Weill Cornell Medical College where he is a Tenured Professor of Medicine and co-director of the Consortium for the Advanced Study of Brain Injury