Theology Department

John J. Paris, S.J.

John Paris



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Walsh Professor of Bioethics
Theology Department

john.paris@bc.edu

Office Location
21 Campanella Way, Room 316
Boston College
Chestnut Hill, MA 02467

Phone: 617.552.8434
Fax: 617.552.0794

Personal Web Site
http://www2.bc.edu/~paris/

Office Hours
Wednesday 10:30-12:00 and by appointment.

   

EDUCATION
Boston College, B.S., M.A.
Harvard University, A.M.
Weston College, Ph.L.
University of Southern California, M.A., Ph.D.

BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY
Father Paris has served as consultant to the President's Commission for the Study of Ethics in Medicine, the United States Senate Committee on Aging, and the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment. He has published over 100 articles on the area of law, medicine, and ethics and has served as a consultant and expert witness in many of the landmark biomedical cases including Quinlan, Brophy, Jobes, Baby K and Gilgunn.

RESEARCH INTERESTS
Legal and Medical Ethics

TEACHING
Law, Medicine & Ethics
Law, Medicine & Public Policy

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES AND AWARDS

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS
Addenbrookes Hospital, Cambridge, ENGLAND Update on Ethical Issues in Neonataology, May 2002.

Gregorian University, Rome, ITALY Evangelium Vitae: Catholic Approaches to End-of-Life-Care, May 2002.

5th International Bioethics Retreat, Almagro, SPAIN "Bad Cases Make Bad Law: Why HCA v. Miller Ought Not Be a Guide to Resuscitation of Infants at the Margins of Viability," June 2002.

LINK 2002, International Conference in Neonatology, Keystone, CO "The Ethical Boundary to Advancement of Neonatal Care," June 2002.

24th Annual Conference of the European Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition, Glasgow, SCOTLAND Keynote Address: "From the Blastocyst to the Beyond: The Ethics of Nutritional Support," September 2002.

Royal Belfast Hospital, Belfast, NORTHERN IRELAND "From Paternalism to Autonomy in Health Care Delivery," and "Ethical Issues in Obstetrics and Perinatology," September 2002.

PUBLICATIONS SINCE 2002

John J. Paris, "Terri Schiavo and the Use of Artificial Nutrition and Fluids: Insights from the Catholic Tradition on End-of-Life Care," Palliative Suppportive Care 4, no. 2 (2006): 117-120.

John J. Paris, Neil Graham, Michael D. Schreiber, Michele Goodwin, "Approaches to end-of-life decision-making in the NICU: Insights from Dostoevsky's The Grand Inquisitor," Journal of Perinatology 26, no. 7 (2006): 389-391.

John J. Paris, "Legal Ethics: Old Concepts and New Concerns—Judicial Recrusal and Attorney-Client Confidentiality After Sarbanes-Axley," 19 U.S. Court of Appeals Veterans Appeals Reporter (2006):220-242.

John J. Paris, James F. Keenan, Kenneth R. Himes, "Did John Paul II’s Allocution on “Life-Sustaining Treatments Tradition," Theological Studies 67, (2006):163-168.

John J. Paris, Neil Graham, Micheal D. Schreiber, Michele Goodwin, "Has the Emphasis on Autonomy Gone Too Far? Insights form Dostoevsky on Parental Decisionmaking in the NICU," Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 15, no. 2 (2006): 147-151.

John J. Paris, Michael D. Schreiber and Robert Fogerty, "Rage, Rage Against the Dying of the Light: Not a Metaphor for End-of-Life Care," in Death in the Clinic, ed. Lynn A. Jansen, (Rowman & Littlefield, 2006): 118-132.

John J. Paris, Gregory Webster and Frank E. Reardon, "Ethical and Legal Issues in Intensive Care," in Manual of Intensive Care Medicine, ed. Richard S. Irwin and James M. Rippe, (Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2006), 871-875. 

John J. Paris, :Media Attention to End-of-Life Cases. Virtual Mentor"; available from http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/category/15752.html; Internet; accessed Dec. 1, 2005.

John J. Paris, "What Standards Apply to Resuscitation at the Borderline of Gestational Age?" Journal of Perinatology 25, no. 11 (2005): 683-684.

John J. Paris, "To Feed or Not to Feed: Terri Schiavo and the Use of Artificial Nutrition and Fluids," Southern Medical Journal 98, no. 8 (2005): 757-758.

John J Paris, "In Law, As in Theology," Boston College Magazine (2005): 42-43.

John J. Paris, Michael D. Schreiber and A Elias-Jones, "Resuscitation of the preterm infant against parental wishes," Archives of Disease and Childhood Fetal and  Neonatal Edition 90 (2005): F208-F210.

John J Paris, “Resuscitation Decisions for Fetal Infants.” Pediatrics 115, no. 5 (2005): 1415.

John J. Paris and Gregory Webster, “Back to the Future: Overcoming Reluctance to Honor In-School DNAR Orders.” American Journal of Bioethics 5 (2005): 67-68.

John J. Paris, Michael D. Schreiber and Frank Reardon, “Letter to the Editor: Response to Clark Study on Miller,” Journal of Perinatology 25 (2005): 76.

John J. Paris, “Improving Fairness in Coverage Decisions:Insights from the Harvard Community Health Plan’s LORAN commission Report,” American Journal of Bioethics 4 (2004): 3.

John J. Paris, Michael D. Schreiber and Frank Reardon, “The Emergent Circumstances Exception to the Need for Consent: The Texas Supreme Court Ruling in Miller v. HCA,” Journal of Perinatology 24 (2004): 337-342.

John J. Paris, “Issues in Legal Ethics,”  Seventh Judicial Conference, United States Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims Veterans Appeals Reporter 17 (2004): 307-335.

John J. Paris and James Keenan, “Ethical Analysis and The Facts: The Schiavo Case,” America, 22-23 December 2003, 15.        

John J. Paris, Michael D. Schreiber and Frank E. Reardon, “Ethical and Legal Issues," in Assisted Ventilation of the Neonate, ed. Jay P. Goldsmith (Philadelphia: Saunders, 2003): 81-90. 

John J. Paris, “Large or Small: A Gift is a Gift is a Gift,” American Journal of Bioethics 3 (2003): 30.   

John J. Paris, Michael D. Schreiber and Frank E. Reardon, "Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy for a Neurologically Devastated Child: Whose Decision Is It?" Journal of Perinatology 23, no. 3 (2003): 250-253. 

John J. Paris, Frank Reardon and Jeffrey Browne, "An Economic, Ethical, and Legal Analysis of Problems in Critical Care Medicine," in Intensive Care Medicine, ed. Richard S. Irwin and James M. Rippe (Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2003), 2213-2224. 

John J. Paris, "The Supreme Court, HMO's and Patient Rights," America, 25 November 2002, 15-18. 

John J. Paris, “Harmless Error and Other Forays into Bioethics,” Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 11 (2002): 353-358. 

John J. Paris, “Harvesting Organs from Cadavers: An Ethical Challenge,” America, 29 April 2002, 9-12.