Selected Research and Publications

SELECTED PEER REVIEWED ARTICLES AND PUBLICATIONS

Eugene Boisaubin, M.D.

PEER REVIEWED ARTICLES

Slaughter A, Levine R, Boisaubin EV.; “Identification and Treatment of Physician Impairment.”   Directions in Psychiatry. 2000:20(2) 165-176.

Sierpina VS, Boisaubin EV.; “Can You Teach Medical and Nursing Students about Spirituality?: A University Based Trial.” Complementary Health Practice Review. 2001:6(2) 147-155.

Boisaubin EV, Levine R. “Identifying and Assisting the Impaired Physician.”  American Journal of the Medical Sciences. 2001: 322(1) 31-36.

Boisaubin EV. "How Should Medical Ethics Be Taught to Students?" Medical Humanities Review. 2001:15(1) 12-15.

Boisaubin EV. “Controversies in Professionalism: Accepting Gifts from Patients.” Texas Medicine.  2001:97(12) 9-11.

Boisaubin EV., “Practitioners and Clinical Trials: True to Your Patients- or Science?” Journal of General Internal Medicine. 2002:17 738-739.

Boisaubin EV. “Observations of Physicians, Patient and Family Perceptions of Informed Consent in Houston Texas.” Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, 2004: 29(2) 225-236.

Boisaubin EV, McCullough L. “Prescribing Viagra in an Ethically Responsible Fashion” Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, 2004: 29(6) 739-749.

Boisaubin EV., Duarte AG, Blair P, Stone TH. “Well Enough to Execute”: The Health Professional’s Responsibility to the Death Row Inmate.” Journal of Correctional Health Care 2004: 11(1) 31-43.

OTHER PUBLICATIONS

Dalton D, Boisaubin EV; “Patient-Physician Boundaries – An Educational Module” Texas Medical Association, Austin, 2000.

Boisaubin EV; and Subcommittee. “Patient Care Module on Confidentiality,” Code of Medical Ethics Curriculum, American Medical Association, October, 2001.

Boisaubin EV; “Evolving Trends in Teaching Clinical Ethics to Physicians in Training.” Law and Bioethics Report: University of Louisville Institute for Bioethics, Health Policy and Law. 2002:1(3) 5-6.

Boisaubin EV, Hunt JA, Mehendale A, Nace, E. “JCAHO Standards Regarding      

Physician Health- An Education Module” Texas Medical Association, Austin 2003.

Boisaubin EV. “Ethical Dilemmas in Managed Care for the Practitioner”, in The Ethics of  Managed Care: Professional Integrity and Patient Rights. Bondeson,W and Jones, J. (editors) 1st edition, Kluwer Publishers, Dordrecht/Boston/London. 2003; 19-28.

Boisaubin EV. “Headache” in, Case Files: Internal Medicine. Toy EC, Patlan JT, Cruse SE and Faustinella F. (editors)  Lange/McGraw Hill, New York. 2004: 448-453.

Boisaubin EV. “The Consent Process in Human Research”, Videotape, Physician Scientist Training Program Videotape; M.D. Anderson Cancer Center and University of Texas Television. 2004

Boisaubin EV. Hospital Corporation of America  Perinatal Risk Program, On-Line Educational Module, 2004

Boisaubin EV. (interview) PBS Religion and Ethics Newsweekly; “Transplantation Ethics” Episode 804, September 24, 2004. http//www.pbs.org/wnet/religionandethics/week804/cover.html

Boisaubin EV. “Calling for a ‘Lifeline’- Charity, Media and Organ Transplantation.” Law and Bioethics Report; University of Louisville Institute for Bioethics, Health Policy and Law. 2004: 4(2) 8-9.

Boisaubin EV, Duarte AG, Blair JD, Stone TH. “’Well Enough to Execute’: The Health Professional’s Responsibility to the Death Row Inmate.”  Correct Care 2004: 18(4) 8.

Boisaubin EV., Greene V., Farnie, M. “Initiating and Evaluating a Program in Ethics and Professionalism for Medical Residents”, in Teaching Medical Ethics and Professionalism, Kahan Parisi & Myles Sheehan, eds. Rowan and Littlefield (in press)

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SELECTED BOOKS, PEER REVIEWED ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS, DOCUMENTARY FILMS, AND TRAINING VIDEOS

 Thomas R. Cole, Ph.D.

BOOKS

Cole, Thomas and Sally Gadow, (eds.) What Does It Mean to Grow Old?:  Reflections from the Humanities.  Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1986.

Polisar, Donna, Thomas Cole, Larry Wygant, and Cielo Perdomo.  Where Do We Come From?  What Are We?  Where Are We Going?:  An Annotated Bibliography of Aging and the Humanities.  Washington, D.C.: Gerontological Society of America, 1988.

Cole, Thomas.  The Journey of Life: A Cultural History of Aging.  New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992.

Cole, Thomas, David Van Tassel, and Robert Kastenbaum, (eds.) Handbook of the Humanities and Aging.  Springer Publishing Co., 1992.

Cole, Thomas, W. Andrew Achenbaum, Patricia Jakobi, and Robert Kastenbaum, (eds.)  Voices and Visions of Aging: a Critical Gerontology.  Springer Publishing Co., 1993.

Cole, Thomas and Mary G. Winkler, (eds.)  The Oxford Book of Aging.  Oxford University Press, 1994.

Cole, Thomas.  No Color Is My Kind:  The Life of  Eldrewey Stearns and the Integration of Houston, Texas. University of Texas Press, 1997.

Cole, Thomas, Ruth Ray, and Robert Kastenbaum (eds.)  Second Edition, Handbook of the Humanities and Aging.  Springer Publishing Co., 1999.

Cole, Thomas (Project Director), On Equal Footing: A Memoir, by Quentin R. Mease, Eakin’s Press, 2001.

Carson, R.A., Chester Burns and Thomas R. Cole (eds.) Practicing the Medical Humanities: Forms of Engagement, University Publishing Group, 2003.

PEER REVIEWED ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS  

Cole, Thomas and Barbara Thompson (Eds), “Anti-Aging: Are You for It Or Against It?,” Generations, Vol. 25, No. 4, Winter 2001-2.

Cole, Thomas, ““Aging” is Going out of Style.” Generations, Volume 25, No. 4, Winter 2001-2, 6-7.

Cole, Thomas, “The Fall of Daedalus,” Generations, Volume 25, No. 4, Winter 2001-2, 66-68.

Gregory, Ryan S. and Thomas R. Cole, “The Changing Role of Dissection in Medical Education,” JAMA, March 6, 2002, Vol. 287, No. 9, 1180-1181.

Cole, Thomas, “To Grow in Wisdom,” Tikkun, Volume 17, No. 3, May 2002, 50-52.

Cole, Thomas, “Fragments of a Midlife: Rethinking One’s Own Story,” Generations 27:3 (Fall, 2003) 77-81

Cole, Thomas, “On the Possibilities of Spirituality and Religious Humanism in Gerontology” Aging, Spirituality, Religion, Volume 2, Ed. by Melvin Kimble and Susan McFadden, Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2003, pp. 434-448.

Cole, Thomas and Faith Lagay, “How the Medical Humanities can Help Revitalize Humanism and How a Reconfigured Humanist can Help Nourish the Medical Humanities” in Practicing the Medical Humanities: Forms of Engagement, University Publishing Group, 2003, pp. 157-177.

Cole, Thomas and Edwards, Claudia, “The 19th Century.”  In The Long History of Old Age, Ed. Pat Thane, London:  Thames & Hudson, Ltd.:2005, 211-261.

Cole, Thomas, “The Multiple Meanings of Stories: Scholarship, Self-knowledge, Cultural Transmission, Public Service, and the Sacred” Introduction to: Stories as Equipment for Living: Last Talks and Tales of Barbara Myerhoff, University of Michigan Press, forthcoming 2006.

Cole, Thomas, Michelle Sierpina, “Humanistic Gerontology and the Meaning(s) of Aging.” forthcoming in K. Ferraro & J. Wilmouth (eds.) Gerontology:  Perspectives and Issues, 3rd Edition, (2006)

DOCUMENTARY FILMS

Cole, Thomas, creator and executive producer; “The Strange Demise of Jim Crow: How Houston Desegregated Its Public Accommodations, 1959-1963" distributed by California Newsreel, 1997.

Cole, Thomas, creator and executive producer; “Still Life: The Humanity of Anatomy" a film for medical education and public broadcasting distributed by Fanlight Productions, 2001.

Cole, Thomas, creator and senior editorial consultant; “Life Stories”, a PBS sponsored film distributed by New River Media, 2001.

TRAINING VIDEOS

Thomas Cole and Michelle Sierpina, co-executive producers, Visible Lives: Story Boarding for Nursing Home Patients (UTMB Academy for Lifelong Learning: 2005)

Thomas Cole and Michelle Sierpina, co-executive producers, “Share Your Life Story: A Program of Writing Workshops for Elders” (UTMB Academy for Lifelong Learning, 2005)

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SELECTED BOOKS, CHAPTERS IN BOOKS, ARTICLES, AND PRESENTATIONS

Samuel E. Karff, D.H.L.

BOOKS

Karff, Samuel E., Permission to Believe: Finding Faith in Troubled Times, Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2005.

Karff, Samuel E., The Soul of the Rav, Austin: Eakin Press, 1999.

CHAPTERS IN BOOKS

Karff, Samuel E., “Silence and Weeping Before the Song,” in Preaching of Biblical Texts: Expositions by Jewish and Christian Scholars. Ed. Holmgren, Frederick C. and Schaalman, Herman E., Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans, 1995.

Karff, Samuel E., “Chapters on Judaism,” in Religions of the World. Nielsen, Neils. New York: St. Martin’s Press, third edition, 1993

Karff, Samuel E., “The Perception of Christians in Jewish Liturgy: Then and Now,” in The Changing Face of Jewish and Christian Worship in North America. Bradshaw, Paul and Lawrence Hoffman. South Bend: University of Notre Dame Press, 1991.

Karff, Samuel E., “Ministry in Judaism: Reflections on Suffering and Caring,” in A Biblical Basis for Ministry. Ed. Shelp, Earl E. and Ronald Sutherland. Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1987.

ARTICLES

Karff, Samuel E., Gene McKenney and James Lomax, “Ethical Consideration in the Integrity of Religion and Psychotherapy, Three Perspectives.” Psychiatric Clinics of North America. Vol. 25,  2002, pg. 547-559.

Karff, Samuel E., “The Moral Life of Religious Leaders,” in The Christian Century, March 22, 1994.

PRESENTATIONS

Karff, Samuel E., “Permission to Believe Finding Faith in Troubled Times,” Union for Reform Judaism Biennial Convention, Houston, Texas, November 19, 2005.

Karff, Samuel E., “The Spiritual Dimension of Medical Care,” MD Anderson Grand Rounds, Guest Lecturer, Second Annual Sister Alice Potts Lecture, Houston, Texas, October 28, 2005.

Karff, Samuel E., “Spirituality and Healing in End of Life Care,” Keynote Address, Annual Meeting of the Texas-New Mexico Academy of Palliative Medicine, Houston, Texas, April 2, 2005.

Karff, Samuel E., “Spirituality and Healing in Medicine,” Presenter, Perspectives in Public Health, Texas Department of Health, Continuing Medical Education (CME) Conference, Austin, Texas, March 23, 2001.

Karff, Samuel E., “Recovering the Care in Care-giving,” Keynote Address, Sisters Care of San Antonio Caregivers Conference, San Antonio, Texas – February 20, 2001.

Karff, Samuel E., “Spirituality and Aging,” Keynote Speaker, State of Texas Conference on Aging, Austin, Texas, February 27, 2000.

Karff, Samuel E., “The Spiritual Dimension in Mediation,” Keynote Speaker, Texas Association of Mediators Conference, Houston, Texas, February 25, 2000.

FORTHCOMING PRESENTATIONS

Karff, Samuel E., “Sacred Vocation: Recovering Meaning in Healthcare Work,” International Conference sponsored by the Providence Health Care System, Vancouver, British Columbia, May 3, 2006.

Karff, Samuel E., “The Meaning of Humanistic Medicine,” National Convention of the American Medical Students Association, Chicago, Illinois, March 30, 2006.

Karff, Samuel E., “Why the Renewed Emphasis on Spirituality and Healing in Medicine,” Annual Volunteer Endowment for Patients Luncheon, MD Anderson Hospital, Houston, Texas, March 28, 2006.

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