Daniel W. Foster M.D., Professor of Medical Ethics
Professor of Psychiatry & Clinical Sciences
Director, Program in Ethics in Science and Medicine
Distinguished Teaching Professor

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


Current Research

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
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, 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.

Phelps, J., Angst, J., Katzow, J., and Sadler, J.Z. 2008. Validity and utility of bipolar spectrum models. Bipolar Disorders 10:179-193.

Radden, J.H., and Sadler, J.Z. 2008. Character virtues in psychiatric practice. Harvard Review of Psychiatry 16(6): 373-380.

Beskow, L.M., Grady, C., Iltis, A.S., Sadler, J.Z., and Wilfond, B.S.: 2009. Points to consider: The research ethics consultation service and the IRB. IRB:Ethics & Human Research 31(6):1-9.

Brandon, A.R., Shivakumar, G., Craddock Lee, S., Inrig, S.J., and Sadler, J.Z. 2009. Ethical issues in perinatal mental health research. Current Opinion in Psychiatry 99(6):601-606.

Sadler, J.Z. 2008. The Instrument Metaphor, Hyponarrativity, and the Generic Clinician. In: Phillips, J. (ed): Philosophical Perspectives on Technology and Psychiatry, Oxford/New York: Oxford University Press, pp. 23-33.

Fulford, K.W.M. and Sadler, J.Z. 2010. Mapping the Logical Geography of Delusion and Spiritual Experience: A Linguistic-analytic Research Agenda covering Problems, Methods and Outputs. In: Peteet, J., Lu, F., and Narrow, W. (eds.) Religious and Spiritual Issues in Psychiatric Diagnosis: A Research Agenda for DSM-V. Arlington, VA: American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc., pp. 254-284.

Lee, S.C., and Sadler J.Z. 2011. Annotations for clinical research ethics, in Clinical Research:  From Proposal to Implementation, McPhaul, M,, and Toto, R. (Eds.) Philadelphia: Lippincott/Williams & Wilkins.

Jotterand, F., Pascaul, J., and Sadler J.Z. In Press. Neuroimaging Technologies, Psychopaths and Criminal Responsibility. In: Giordano, J. (ed.) Toward a Neuroehtics of Self and Other: Neurosciences, Neurotechnology, and the Enigma of Mind. New York: Cambridge University Press

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.

Radden, Jennifer and Sadler, J.Z. in press. The Virtuous Psychiatrist: Character Ethics in Clinical Practice. New York/Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Kendler, K.S., Appelbaum, P.S., Bell, C.C., Fulford, K.W.M., Ghaemi, S.N., Schaffner, K.F., Waterman, G.S., First, M.B., and Sadler, J.Z.. 2008. Editorial:  Issues for DSM-V: DSM-V should include a conceptual issues work group. American Journal of Psychiatry 165(2):174-175.

Sadler, J.Z., Jotterand, F., Craddock Lee, S., and Inrig, S. 2009. Can medicalization be good? Situating medicalization within bioethics. Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics 30(6):411-425.

Radden, J.H. and Sadler, J.Z. 2009. The Virtuous Psychiatrist: Character Ethics in Psychiatric Practice. New York: Oxford University Press.

Sadler, J.Z. 2008. Vice and the diagnostic classification of mental disorders: A philosophical case conference. Philosophy, Psychiatry & Psychology 15(1):1-17.

Stein, D.J., Phillips, K.A., Bolton, D., Fulford, K.W.M., Sadler, J.Z., and Kendler, K.S. 2010. What is a mental disorder? From DSM-IV to DSM-V. Psychological Medicine Jan. 20:1-7 (Epub ahead of print). DOI: 10.1017/S0033291710001327.

Sadler, J.Z. 2011. Psychiatric molecular genetics and the ethics of social promises. Journal of Bioethical Inquiry 8:27-34. DOI: 10.1007/s11673-010-9273-z