James Evan Sabin

James Evan Sabin, MD

Professor of Population Medicine, Part-time
Member, HMS Center for Bioethics

James Sabin is Clinical Professor in the Departments of Population Medicine and Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and Director of the Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Ethics Program, a nationally recognized, highly innovative organizational ethics program. His major research interests are in the clinical and theoretical aspects of fair resource allocation, the role of consumers in overseeing health policy and practice, and the ways in which organizations can best deal with the ethical dimensions of their work.  He has written more than 150 articles and chapters on organizational ethics, resource allocation, and clinical practice. A second edition of Setting Limits Fairly, written with Norman Daniels, was published by Oxford University Press 2008.  No Margin, No Mission: Health Care Organizations and the Quest for Ethical Excellence, written with Steven Pearson and Ezekiel Emanuel, was published by Oxford University Press in 2003. In 2012 he was appointed to the American Medical Association Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs, and in 2013 he was made a fellow of the Hastings Center. He blogs about ethics and policy regarding aging at http://www.over65.thehastingscenter.org and health system ethics at http://healthcareorganizationalethics.blogspot.com

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"Mind the gap": reflections of an American health maintenance organisation doctor on the new NHS.
Authors: Authors: Sabin JE.
BMJ
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The therapeutic alliance in managed care mental health practice.
Authors: Authors: Sabin JE.
J Psychother Pract Res
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Review of: Balancing Act: the New Medical Ethics of Medicine's New Economics
Authors: Authors: Sabin JE
Dispatches, Newsletter of the Centre of Medical Law and Ethics
The therapeutic alliance in managed care mental health practice
Authors: Authors: Sabin JE
Journal of Psychotherapy Practice and Research
When is home care medically necessary?
Authors: Authors: Forrow L, Daniels N, Sabin JE.
Hastings Cent Rep
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A mental health fellowship program in an HMO setting.
Authors: Authors: Donovan JM, Steinberg S, Sabin JE.
Hosp Community Psychiatry
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Clinical skills for the 1990s: six lessons from HMO practice.
Authors: Authors: Sabin JE.
Hosp Community Psychiatry
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Clarifying the concept of medical necessity
Authors: Authors: Sabin JE
Proceedings of the Group Health Institute
Ethical aspects of psychiatric practice in the managed care setting
Authors: Authors: Sabin JE
Transcript summary: Ethics in Managed Care Conference (October 25-26, 1991)
Joseph Hersey Pratt's cost-effective class method and its contemporary application: some problems in biopsychosocial innovation.
Authors: Authors: Sabin JE.
Psychiatry
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