Daniel W. Foster Professor of Medical Ethics
Distinguished Teaching Professor, UT Southwestern Medical School
Professor of Psychiatry and Clinical Sciences, UT Southwestern
Director, Program in Ethics in Science and Medicine, UT Southwestern
Chief, Division of Clinical Research Ethics, Department of Clinical Sciences, UT Southwestern

UT Southwestern Medical Center
Department of Psychiatry
5323 Harry Hines Blvd.
Dallas, TX  75390-9070
Office: 214-648-4960
Fax: 214-648-4967
E-mail: john.sadler@utsouthwestern.edu

Ethics/Medical Humanities Areas of Expertise/Interest:

Philosophy and ethics of psychiatric diagnostic classification
Bioethics case consultation
Clinical research ethics
Philosophy of Psychiatry
Psychiatric Ethics

CME Lectures:

Intrusive Regulations and the Medical Profession: Modest lessons from recent history
The Ethics of Ethics Committees
Mad vs. Bad Revisited:  Moral and nonmoral values in psychiatric diagnosis
The Instrument Metaphor, Hyponarrativity, and the Generic Clinician
Intrusive Regulation of Medical Practice: Modest Lessons from Recent History
Ten Weird Things About Western Psychiatry: What Western clinicians should know about their own culture.
The nature of mental disorder and the special moral responsibility of the psychiatrist
Criminality and the DSM
Basics of informed consent for research (interactive video forum)

Public Lectures:

The Ethics of Ethics Committees
Psychiatric Diagnosis - What the Public Should Know
Mad vs. Bad Revisited:  Rethinking an old problem about stigma and mental illness
The nature of mental disorder and the special moral responsibility of the psychiatrist
Basics of informed consent for research (interactive video forum)

Other Recent Ethics/Medical Humanities Activities:

Beginning, 9/1/06, I'll be starting a new research program supported by the Spunk Fund, entitled "Criminality and Psychiatric Nosology"  This will consider how concepts of criminality and mental disorder are conflated in Anglo-American society, and will aim to develop a measured, morally-justifiable public and psychiatric approach to the criminality-mental disorder relationship.

Development of UT Southwestern - University of Texas at Dallas joint lecture series focusing on matters of public interest:

11/14/06  Rethinking Research Ethics - Public forum featuring Rosamond Rhodes, Ph.D. (Mt. Sinai University School of Medicine)

1/8/06  Neuroethics:  What the public should know - Public forum featuring Judy Iles, Ph.D.  (Director of Neuroethics Program - Stanford University School of Medicine)

5/8/07  Public issues about biomedical enhancement - Erik Parens Ph.D., (Senior Scholar, The Hastings Center)

Recent Ethics/Medical Humanities Publications:

Sadler, J.Z., Hulgus, Y.F., and Agich, G.J. 1994. On values in recent American psychiatric classification.  The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 19:261-277.

Sadler, J.Z., Wiggins, O.P., and Schwartz, M.A., Eds. 1994. Philosophical Perspectives on Psychiatric Diagnostic Classification.  Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press.

Sadler, J.Z. and Agich, G.J. 1995. Diseases, functions, values, and psychiatric classification (with commentary by Jerome C. Wakefield).  Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology 2(3):219-246.

Crowder, J.D., Miller, D.A., Sadler, J.Z., and Mohl, P.C. 1996. Self-directed learning in a psychopathology course.  Academic Psychiatry 20(2):101-110.

Sadler, J.Z. 1996. Rationales, values and DSM-IV: The case of "medication-induced movement disorders". Comprehensive Psychiatry 37(6):441-451.
 
Sadler, J.Z. 1996. Epistemic value commitments in the debate over categorical vs. dimensional personality diagnosis (with commentary by W. John Livesley and Michael Luntley). Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology 3(3):203-229.

Wallace, E.R., Radden, J., and Sadler, J.Z. 1997. The philosophy of psychiatry-who needs it? Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease 185(2):67-73.

Sadler, J.Z. 1997. Recognizing values: A descriptive-causal method for medical/scientific discourses.  The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 22:541-565.

Tysinger, J.W., Klonis, L.K., Sadler, J.Z., and Wagner, J.M. 1997. Teaching ethics using small-group, problem-based learning.  Journal of Medical Ethics 23:315-318.

Sadler, J.Z.1999. Horsefeathers: A commentary on "Evolutionary vs. Roschian Analyses of the Concept of Disorder" by Jerome C. Wakefield. Journal of Abnormal Psychology 108(3):371-373.

Sadler, J.Z., Hulgus, J.F., and Agich, G.J.2001. Hindsight, foresight, and having it both ways: A rejoinder to R. L. Spitzer. The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease 189(8):493-497.

Sadler, J.Z., Ed. 2002.  Descriptions and Prescriptions: Values, Mental Disorders, and the DSMs .  Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press

Fulford, K.W.M., Morris, K., Sadler, J.Z. and Stanghellini, G., Eds. 2003. Nature and Narrative: An Introduction to the New Philosophy of Psychiatry. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.

Sadler, J.Z., Fulford, K.W.M. 2004. Should patients and families contribute to the DSM-V process? Psychiatric Services 55(2)133-138.

Sadler, J.Z.  2005. Values and Psychiatric Diagnosis. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.

Sadler, J.Z., Guest Editor. 2005. Clinical ethics of Richard M. Zaner. Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics. 26(1): 1-104.

Wiggins, O.P, and Sadler, J.Z. 2005. A window into Richard M. Zaner's clinical ethics (introduction). Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics 26(1): 1-6.

Sadler, J.Z. 2005. Social context and stakeholder's values in building diagnostic systems. Psychopathology 38(4): 197-200.

Sadler, J.Z. 2005. Bug-eyed and breathless: Emerging crises involving values. World Psychiatry 2(4): 87.

Sadler, J.Z.  Guest Editor. 2006.  Philosophical Aspects of Personality Disorders, Special Section. Journal of Personality Disorders 20 (2): 113-185.

Sadler, J.Z., and Fulford, B. 2006.  Normative warrant in diagnostic criteria:  The case of DSM-IV-TR personality disorders.  Journal of Personality Disorders 20 (2): 170-180.

Key Publications:

Sadler, J.Z., Wiggins, O.P., and Schwartz, M.A., Eds. 1994. Philosophical Perspectives on Psychiatric Diagnostic Classification.  Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press.

Sadler, J.Z. 1997. Recognizing values: A descriptive-causal method for medical/scientific discourses.  The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 22:541-565.

Sadler, J.Z., Ed. 2002.  Descriptions and Prescriptions: Values, Mental Disorders, and the DSMs .  Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press

Fulford, K.W.M., Morris, K., Sadler, J.Z. and Stanghellini, G., Eds. 2003. Nature and Narrative: An Introduction to the New Philosophy of Psychiatry. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.

Sadler, J.Z.  2005. Values and Psychiatric Diagnosis. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.

Sadler, J.Z. 2007. The Psychiatric Significance of the Personal Self. Psychiatry 70(2):113-129.