Farr A Curlin | Scholars@Duke

Farr A Curlin
Professor of Medicine

Farr A. Curlin, MD, is Josiah C. Trent Professor of Medical Humanities in the Trent Center for Bioethics, Humanities and History of Medicine, and Co-Director of the Theology, Medicine and Culture Initiative at Duke Divinity School. Before moving to Duke in 2014, he founded and was Co-Director of the Program on Medicine and Religion at the University of Chicago. At Duke, Farr practices palliative medicine and works with colleagues in the Trent Center and the Divinity School to develop opportunities for education and scholarship at the intersection of theology, medicine and culture. He is interested in the moral and spiritual dimensions of medical practice—particularly the doctor-patient relationship, the moral and professional formation of physicians, and practices of care for patients at the end of life.

Current Appointments & Affiliations

Professor of Medicine, Medicine, General Internal Medicine, Medicine 2015
Professor of Medical Humanities, Divinity School, Duke University 2014

Contact Information

3040, 108 Seeley G Mudd Bldg, Durham, NC 27710
3040, 108 Seeley G Mudd Bldg, Durham, NC 27710
Conference on Medicine and Religion
Fellowship in Theology, Medicine and Culture

Background
Education, Training, & Certifications
- Fellowship, University of Chicago 2001 - 2004
- Resident, Internal Medicine, University of Chicago 1998 - 2001
- M.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 1998
Duke Appointment History
- Instructor, Temporary in the Department of Medicine, Medicine, General Internal Medicine, Medicine 2014 - 2015
Recognition
In the News
- MAY 23, 2018
  
  In Appalachia, the Fight Against Opioid Abuse Comes to the Pulpit
Expertise
Subject Headings
Research
Selected Grants
- Arete Initiative at the Kenan Institute for Ethics awarded by Foundation for Excellence in Education 2019 - 2020
- Training Research-Literate Chaplains as Ambassadors for Spirituality and Health: Phase I awarded by Rush University Medical Center 2015 - 2019
- Toward Policies that Accommodate the Concerns of African Americans' in Resolving Disputes about the Use of Life Sustaini awarded by Greenwall Foundation 2015 - 2017
Publications & Artistic Works
Selected Publications
- Academic Articles
  - Blythe, JA, and Curlin, FA. ""Just do your job": technology, bureaucracy, and the eclipse of conscience in contemporary medicine." Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics (November 20, 2018). Full Text
  - Leffel, GM, Oakes Mueller, RA, Ham, SA, Karches, KE, Curlin, FA, and Yoon, JD. "Project on the Good Physician: Further Evidence for the Validity of a Moral Intuitionist Model of Virtuous Caring." Teaching and Learning in Medicine 30, no. 3 (July 2018): 303-316. Full Text
  - Stavig, AR, Tak, HJ, Yoon, JD, and Curlin, FA. "Taking societal cost into clinical consideration: U.S. physicians' views." Ajob Empirical Bioethics 9, no. 3 (July 2018): 173-180. Full Text
  - Curlin, FA. "Palliative sedation: clinical context and ethical questions." Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics 39, no. 3 (June 2018): 197-209. Full Text
  - Sobowale, K, Ham, SA, Curlin, FA, and Yoon, JD. "Personality Traits Are Associated with Academic Achievement in Medical School: A Nationally Representative Study." Academic Psychiatry : the Journal of the American Association of Directors of Psychiatric Residency Training and the Association for Academic Psychiatry 42, no. 3 (June 2018): 338-345. Full Text
  - Choi, PJ, Curlin, FA, and Cox, CE. "Addressing religion and spirituality in the intensive care unit: A survey of clinicians." Palliative & Supportive Care (April 30, 2018): 1-6. Full Text
  - Antiel, RM, Curlin, FA, Lantos, JD, Collura, CA, Flake, AW, Johnson, MP, Rintoul, NE, Brown, SD, and Feudtner, C. "Attitudes of paediatric and obstetric specialists towards prenatal surgery for lethal and non-lethal conditions." Journal of medical ethics 44, no. 4 (April 2018): 234-238. Full Text
  - Yoon, JD, Ham, SA, Reddy, ST, and Curlin, FA. "Role Models' Influence on Specialty Choice for Residency Training: A National Longitudinal Study." Journal of Graduate Medical Education 10, no. 2 (April 2018): 149-154. Full Text
  - Shepherd, AM, Schnitker, SS, Leffel, GM, Oakes Mueller, RA, Curlin, FA, Yoon, JD, and Greenway, T. "Developing the Good Physician: Spirituality affects the development of virtues and moral intuitions in medical students." The Journal of Positive Psychology 13, no. 2 (March 4, 2018): 143-154. Full Text
  - Frush, BW, Brauer, SG, Yoon, JD, and Curlin, FA. "Physician Decision-Making in the Setting of Advanced Illness: An Examination of Patient Disposition and Physician Religiousness." Journal of pain and symptom management 55, no. 3 (March 2018): 906-912. Full Text
  - Smyre, CL, Tak, HJ, Dang, AP, Curlin, FA, and Yoon, JD. "Physicians' Opinions on Engaging Patients' Religious and Spiritual Concerns: A National Survey." Journal of pain and symptom management 55, no. 3 (March 2018): 897-905. Full Text
  - O'Connell, TF, Ham, SA, Hart, TG, Curlin, FA, and Yoon, JD. "A National Longitudinal Survey of Medical Students' Intentions to Practice Among the Underserved." Academic Medicine : Journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges 93, no. 1 (January 2018): 90-97. Full Text
  - Antiel, RM, Flake, AW, Collura, CA, Johnson, MP, Rintoul, NE, Lantos, JD, Curlin, FA, Tilburt, JC, Brown, SD, and Feudtner, C. "Weighing the Social and Ethical Considerations of Maternal-Fetal Surgery." Pediatrics 140, no. 6 (December 2017). Full Text
  - Yoon, JD, Hunt, NB, Ravella, KC, Jun, CS, and Curlin, FA. "Physician Burnout and the Calling to Care for the Dying: A National Survey." The American journal of hospice & palliative care 34, no. 10 (December 2017): 931-937. Full Text Open Access Copy
  - Hines, HG, Avila, CJ, Rudakevych, TM, Curlin, FA, and Yoon, JD. "Physician Perspectives on Long-Term Relationships and Friendships with Patients: A National Assessment." Southern medical journal 110, no. 11 (November 2017): 679-684. Full Text
  - Antiel, RM, Collura, CA, Flake, AW, Johnson, MP, Rintoul, NE, Lantos, JD, Curlin, FA, Tilburt, JC, Brown, SD, and Feudtner, C. "Physician views regarding the benefits and burdens of prenatal surgery for myelomeningocele." Journal of Perinatology : Official Journal of the California Perinatal Association 37, no. 9 (September 2017): 994-998. Full Text
  - Prochaska, MT, Putman, MS, Tak, HJ, Yoon, JD, and Curlin, FA. "US Physicians Overwhelmingly Endorse Hospice as the Better Option for Most Patients at the End of Life." The American journal of hospice & palliative care 34, no. 6 (July 2017): 556-558. Full Text
  - Putman, MS, D'Alessandro, A, Curlin, FA, and Yoon, JD. "Unilateral Do Not Resuscitate Orders: Physician Attitudes and Practices." Chest 152, no. 1 (July 2017): 224-225. (Letter) Full Text
  - Tak, HJ, Curlin, FA, and Yoon, JD. "Association of Intrinsic Motivating Factors and Markers of Physician Well-Being: A National Physician Survey." Journal of General Internal Medicine 32, no. 7 (July 2017): 739-746. Full Text
  - Brauer, SG, Yoon, JD, and Curlin, FA. "Physician Satisfaction in Treating Medically Unexplained Symptoms." Southern medical journal 110, no. 5 (May 2017): 386-391. Full Text Open Access Copy
  - Hawking, M, Curlin, FA, and Yoon, JD. "Courage and Compassion: Virtues in Caring for So-Called "Difficult" Patients." AMA journal of ethics 19, no. 4 (April 2017): 357-363. Full Text Open Access Copy
  - Lee, BM, Curlin, FA, and Choi, PJ. "Documenting presence: A descriptive study of chaplain notes in the intensive care unit." Palliative & supportive care 15, no. 2 (April 2017): 190-196. Full Text
  - Yoon, JD, Daley, BM, and Curlin, FA. "The Association Between a Sense of Calling and Physician Well-Being: A National Study of Primary Care Physicians and Psychiatrists." Academic Psychiatry : the Journal of the American Association of Directors of Psychiatric Residency Training and the Association for Academic Psychiatry 41, no. 2 (April 2017): 167-173. Full Text
  - Antiel, RM, Flake, AW, Johnson, MP, Khalek, N, Rintoul, NE, Lantos, JD, Curlin, FA, Tilburt, JC, and Feudtner, C. "Specialty-Based Variation in Applying Maternal-Fetal Surgery Trial Evidence." Fetal diagnosis and therapy 42, no. 3 (January 2017): 210-217. Full Text
  - Michael Leffel, G, Oakes Mueller, RA, Ham, SA, Curlin, FA, and Yoon, JD. "Project on the Good Physician: A Proposal for a Moral Intuitionist Model of Virtuous Caring." Teaching and Learning in Medicine 29, no. 1 (January 2017): 75-84. Full Text
  - Putman, MS, Tak, HJ, Curlin, FA, and Yoon, JD. "Quality of Life and Recommendations for Further Care." Critical Care Medicine 44, no. 11 (November 2016): 1996-2002. Full Text Open Access Copy
  - Chung, GS, Diaz, MJ, Arora, V, Meltzer, DO, and Curlin, FA. "Changes in health status and frequency of attending religious services among medical inpatients with repeat admissions." Journal of Religion, Spirituality & Aging 28, no. 4 (October 2016): 349-358. Full Text
  - Chung, GS, Yoon, JD, Rasinski, KA, and Curlin, FA. "US Physicians' Opinions about Distinctions between Withdrawing and Withholding Life-Sustaining Treatment." Journal of Religion and Health 55, no. 5 (October 2016): 1596-1606. Full Text
  - Hvidt, N, Kappel Kørup, A, Curlin, F, Baumann, K, Frick, E, Søndergaard, J, Nielsen, J, dePont Christensen, R, Lawrence, R, Lucchetti, G, Ramakrishnan, P, Karimah, A, Schulze, A, Wermuth, I, Schouten, E, Hefti, R, Lee, E, AlYousefi, N, Balslev van Randwijk, C, Kuseyri, C, Mukwayakala, T, Wey, M, Eglin, M, Opsahl, T, and Büssing, A. "The NERSH International Collaboration on Values, Spirituality and Religion in Medicine: Development of Questionnaire, Description of Data Pool, and Overview of Pool Publications." Religions 7, no. 8 (August 2016): 107-107. Full Text
  - Padela, AI, Adam, H, Ahmad, M, Hosseinian, Z, and Curlin, F. "Religious identity and workplace discrimination: A national survey of American Muslim physicians." AJOB Empirical Bioethics 7, no. 3 (July 2, 2016): 149-159. Full Text
  - Ayeh, DD, Tak, HJ, Yoon, JD, and Curlin, FA. "U.S. Physicians' Opinions About Accommodating Religiously Based Requests for Continued Life-Sustaining Treatment." Journal of pain and symptom management 51, no. 6 (June 2016): 971-978. Full Text
  - Hodges, LE, Tak, HJ, Curlin, FA, and Yoon, JD. "Whistle-blowing in Medical School: A National Survey on Peer Accountability and Professional Misconduct in Medical Students." Academic psychiatry : the journal of the American Association of Directors of Psychiatric Residency Training and the Association for Academic Psychiatry 40, no. 3 (June 2016): 530-533. Full Text
  - Salmoirago-Blotcher, E, Fitchett, G, Leung, K, Volturo, G, Boudreaux, E, Crawford, S, Ockene, I, and Curlin, F. "An exploration of the role of religion/spirituality in the promotion of physicians' wellbeing in Emergency Medicine." Preventive medicine reports 3 (June 2016): 189-195. Full Text
  - Curlin, FA, and Meador, KG. "Setting Medicine in the Context of a Faithful Christian Life." Christian Bioethics 22, no. 1 (April 2016): 1-4. Full Text
  - Curlin, FA. "What Does Any of This Have to Do With Being a Physician? Kierkegaardian Irony and the Practice of Medicine." Christian Bioethics 22, no. 1 (April 2016): 62-79. Full Text
  - Brauer, SG, Yoon, JD, and Curlin, FA. "US primary care physicians' opinions about conscientious refusal: a national vignette experiment." Journal of medical ethics 42, no. 2 (February 2016): 80-84. Full Text
  - Ernecoff, NC, Curlin, FA, and White, DB. "Spiritual Care Providers and Goals-of-Care Discussions--Reply." JAMA internal medicine 176, no. 2 (February 2016): 279-. (Letter) Full Text
  - Hansen, KE, and Johnson, MG. "Proposed Guidelines for Future Vitamin D Studies—Reply." Jama Internal Medicine 176, no. 2 (February 1, 2016): 281-281. Full Text
  - Mercuri, M, Pascual, TNB, Mahmarian, JJ, Shaw, LJ, Dondi, M, Paez, D, and Einstein, AJ. "Estimating the Reduction in the Radiation Burden From Nuclear Cardiology Through Use of Stress-Only Imaging in the United States and Worldwide." Jama Internal Medicine 176, no. 2 (February 1, 2016): 269-269. Full Text
  - Yang, YT, and Curlin, FA. "Why Physicians Should Oppose Assisted Suicide." Jama 315, no. 3 (January 2016): 247-248. Full Text
  - Leffel, GM, Oakes Mueller, RA, Curlin, FA, and Yoon, JD. "Relevance of the rationalist-intuitionist debate for ethics and professionalism in medical education." Advances in health sciences education : theory and practice 20, no. 5 (December 2015): 1371-1383. Full Text
  - Choi, PJ, Curlin, FA, and Cox, CE. ""The Patient Is Dying, Please Call the Chaplain": The Activities of Chaplains in One Medical Center's Intensive Care Units." Journal of pain and symptom management 50, no. 4 (October 2015): 501-506. Full Text
  - Ernecoff, NC, Curlin, FA, Buddadhumaruk, P, and White, DB. "Health Care Professionals' Responses to Religious or Spiritual Statements by Surrogate Decision Makers During Goals-of-Care Discussions." Jama Internal Medicine 175, no. 10 (October 2015): 1662-1669. Full Text
  - Carey, GB, Curlin, FA, and Yoon, JD. "Medical student opinions on character development in medical education: a national survey." BMC research notes 8 (September 18, 2015): 455-. Full Text
  - Padela, AI, Malik, AY, Curlin, F, and De Vries, R. "[Re]considering Respect for Persons in a Globalizing World." Developing World Bioethics 15, no. 2 (August 2015): 98-106. Full Text
  - Padela, AI, Murrar, S, Adviento, B, Liao, C, Hosseinian, Z, Peek, M, and Curlin, F. "Associations between religion-related factors and breast cancer screening among American Muslims." Journal of immigrant and minority health 17, no. 3 (June 2015): 660-669. Full Text
  - Wolenberg, K, Kim, D, Curlin, F, and Sulmasy, D. "In reply to Cayley." Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges 90, no. 5 (May 2015): 547-. (Letter) Full Text
  - Ravella, KC, Curlin, FA, and Yoon, JD. "Medical school ranking and medical student vocational identity." Teaching and learning in medicine 27, no. 2 (April 2015): 123-129. Full Text
  - Smyre, CL, Yoon, JD, Rasinski, KA, and Curlin, FA. "Limits and responsibilities of physicians addressing spiritual suffering in terminally ill patients." Journal of pain and symptom management 49, no. 3 (March 2015): 562-569. Full Text
  - Yoon, JD, Shin, JH, Nian, AL, and Curlin, FA. "Religion, sense of calling, and the practice of medicine: findings from a national survey of primary care physicians and psychiatrists." Southern Medical Journal 108, no. 3 (March 2015): 189-195. Full Text
  - Lawrence, RE, Rasinski, KA, Yoon, JD, and Curlin, FA. "Psychiatrists' and primary care physicians' beliefs about overtreatment of depression and anxiety." The Journal of nervous and mental disease 203, no. 2 (February 2015): 120-125. Full Text
  - Lawrence, RE, Rasinski, KA, Yoon, JD, and Curlin, FA. "Physician race and treatment preferences for depression, anxiety, and medically unexplained symptoms." Ethnicity & health 20, no. 4 (January 2015): 354-364. Full Text
  - Lewis-Newby, M, Wicclair, M, Pope, T, Rushton, C, Curlin, F, Diekema, D, Durrer, D, Ehlenbach, W, Gibson-Scipio, W, Glavan, B, Langer, RL, Manthous, C, Rose, C, Scardella, A, Shanawani, H, Siegel, MD, Halpern, SD, Truog, RD, White, DB, and ATS Ethics and Conflict of Interest Committee, . "An official American Thoracic Society policy statement: managing conscientious objections in intensive care medicine." American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine 191, no. 2 (January 2015): 219-227. Full Text
  - Kim, DT, Curlin, FA, Wolenberg, KM, and Sulmasy, DP. "Back to the future: The AMA and religion, 1961-1974." Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges 89, no. 12 (December 2014): 1603-1609. Full Text
  - Lee, RT, Barbo, A, Lopez, G, Melhem-Bertrandt, A, Lin, H, Olopade, OI, and Curlin, FA. "National survey of US oncologists' knowledge, attitudes, and practice patterns regarding herb and supplement use by patients with cancer." Journal of Clinical Oncology : Official Journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology 32, no. 36 (December 2014): 4095-4101. Full Text
  - Lawrence, RE, Rasinski, KA, Yoon, JD, and Curlin, FA. "Primary care physicians' and psychiatrists' willingness to refer to religious mental health providers." The International Journal of Social Psychiatry 60, no. 7 (November 2014): 627-636. Full Text
  - Padela, AI, Peek, M, Johnson-Agbakwu, CE, Hosseinian, Z, and Curlin, F. "Associations between religion-related factors and cervical cancer screening among Muslims in greater chicago." Journal of Lower Genital Tract Disease 18, no. 4 (October 2014): 326-332. Full Text
  - Shim, J-M, Schneider, J, and Curlin, FA. "Patterns of user disclosure of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) use." Medical care 52, no. 8 (August 2014): 704-708. Full Text
  - Cook, AF, Arora, VM, Rasinski, KA, Curlin, FA, and Yoon, JD. "The prevalence of medical student mistreatment and its association with burnout." Academic Medicine : Journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges 89, no. 5 (May 2014): 749-754. Full Text
  - Putman, MS, Yoon, JD, Rasinski, KA, and Curlin, FA. "Directive counsel and morally controversial medical decision-making: findings from two national surveys of primary care physicians." J Gen Intern Med 29, no. 2 (February 2014): 335-340. Full Text Link to Item
  - Antiel, R, O’Donnell, E, Humeniuk, K, Curlin, F, Hardt, J, and Tilburt, J. "Physician Opinion and the HHS Contraceptives Mandate." Ajob Empirical Bioethics 5, no. 1 (January 2014): 56-60. Full Text
  - Curlin, FA. "Holy transgressions: breaching the wall between public religion and patient care." Narrative inquiry in bioethics 4, no. 3 (January 2014): 221-226. Full Text
  - Kim, D, Curlin, F, Wolenberg, K, and Sulmasy, D. "Religion in Organized Medicine: The AMA's Committee and Department of Medicine and Religion, 1961-1974." Perspectives in biology and medicine 57, no. 3 (January 2014): 393-414. Full Text
  - Padela, AI, Peek, M, Johnson-Agbakwu, CE, Hosseinian, Z, and Curlin, F. "Associations between religion-related factors and cervical cancer screening among muslims in greater Chicago." Journal of Lower Genital Tract Disease (2014). Full Text
  - Padela, AI, and Curlin, FA. "Religion and disparities: considering the influences of Islam on the health of American Muslims." J Relig Health 52, no. 4 (December 2013): 1333-1345. (Review) Full Text Link to Item
  - Wolenberg, KM, Yoon, JD, Rasinski, KA, and Curlin, FA. "Religion and United States physicians' opinions and self-predicted practices concerning artificial nutrition and hydration." J Relig Health 52, no. 4 (December 2013): 1051-1065. Full Text Link to Item
  - Chung, GS, Rasinski, KA, and Curlin, FA. "PHYSICIANS' OPINIONS ABOUT WITHDRAWING VS. WITHHOLDING LIFE-SUSTAINING TREATMENT AT THE END OF LIFE: FINDINGS FROM A NATIONAL PHYSICIAN SURVEY." GERONTOLOGIST 53 (November 2013): 502-502. Link to Item
  - Antiel, RM, Curlin, FA, James, KM, and Tilburt, JC. "The moral psychology of rationing among physicians: the role of harm and fairness intuitions in physician objections to cost-effectiveness and cost-containment. (Published online)" Philos Ethics Humanit Med 8 (September 8, 2013): 13-. Full Text Link to Item
  - Lawrence, RE, Rasinski, KA, Yoon, JD, and Curlin, FA. "Religion and anxiety treatments in primary care patients." Anxiety Stress Coping 26, no. 5 (September 2013): 526-538. Full Text Link to Item
  - Putman, MS, Yoon, JD, Rasinski, KA, and Curlin, FA. "Intentional sedation to unconsciousness at the end of life: findings from a national physician survey." J Pain Symptom Manage 46, no. 3 (September 2013): 326-334. Full Text Link to Item
  - Combs, MP, Rasinski, KA, Yoon, JD, and Curlin, FA. "Substituted judgment in principle and practice: a national physician survey." Mayo Clinic Proceedings 88, no. 7 (July 2013): 666-673. Full Text
  - Sheppe, AH, Nicholson, RF, Rasinski, KA, Yoon, JD, and Curlin, FA. "Providing guidance to patients: physicians' views about the relative responsibilities of doctors and religious communities." Southern Medical Journal 106, no. 7 (July 2013): 399-406. Full Text
  - Lawrence, RE, Rasinski, KA, Yoon, JD, and Curlin, FA. "Physicians' Beliefs about the nature of addiction: a survey of primary care physicians and psychiatrists." Am J Addict 22, no. 3 (May 2013): 255-260. Full Text Link to Item
  - Putman, MS, and Curlin, FA. "Authors' reply to Dirksen et al." J Pain Symptom Manage 45, no. 5 (May 2013): e2-e3. (Letter) Full Text Link to Item
  - Lawrence, RE, Rasinski, KA, Yoon, JD, and Curlin, FA. "Physicians' Beliefs about the Nature of Addiction: A Survey of Primary Care Physicians and Psychiatrists (Accepted)." American Journal on Addictions (March 8, 2013). Full Text
  - Curlin, FA, Serrano, KD, Baker, MG, Carricaburu, SL, Smucker, DR, and Chin, MH. "Following the call: How providers make sense of their decisions to work in faith-based and secular urban community health centers." 9781421408859 (January 1, 2013): 36-49. (Chapter)
  - Lawrence, RE, Rasinski, KA, Yoon, JD, and Curlin, FA. "Religion and beliefs about treating medically unexplained symptoms: a survey of primary care physicians and psychiatrists." International Journal of Psychiatry in Medicine 45, no. 1 (January 2013): 31-44. Full Text
  - Shin, JH, Yoon, JD, Rasinski, KA, Koenig, HG, Meador, KG, and Curlin, FA. "A spiritual problem? Primary care physicians' and psychiatrists' interpretations of medically unexplained symptoms." Journal of General Internal Medicine 28, no. 3 (2013): 392-398. Full Text
  - Tilburt, JC, James, KM, Jenkins, SM, Antiel, RM, Curlin, FA, and Rasinski, KA. ""Righteous minds" in health care: measurement and explanatory value of social intuitionism in accounting for the moral judgments in a sample of U.S. physicians. (Published online)" PLoS One 8, no. 9 (2013): e73379-. Full Text Link to Item
  - Karches, KE, Chung, GS, Arora, V, Meltzer, DO, and Curlin, FA. "Religiosity, spirituality, and end-of-life planning: a single-site survey of medical inpatients." J Pain Symptom Manage 44, no. 6 (December 2012): 843-851. Full Text Link to Item
  - Chung, GS, Lawrence, RE, Rasinski, KA, Yoon, JD, and Curlin, FA. "Reply." American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology 207, no. 5 (November 2012): e9-e10. Full Text
  - Lawrence, RE, Rasinski, KA, Yoon, JD, Meador, KG, Koenig, HG, and Curlin, FA. "Primary care physicians' and psychiatrists' approaches to treating mild depression." ACTA PSYCHIATRICA SCANDINAVICA 126, no. 5 (November 2012): 385-392. Full Text Link to Item
  - Rasinski, KA, Lawrence, RE, Yoon, JD, and Curlin, FA. "A sense of calling and primary care physicians' satisfaction in treating smoking, alcoholism, and obesity." Arch Intern Med 172, no. 18 (October 8, 2012): 1423-1424. Full Text Link to Item
  - Rasinski, KA, Lawrence, RE, Yoon, JD, and Curlin, FA. "A sense of calling and primary care physicians' satisfaction in treating smoking, alcoholism, and obesity." Archives of Internal Medicine 172, no. 18 (October 8, 2012): 1-2.
  - Antiel, RM, Curlin, FA, James, KM, Sulmasy, DP, and Tilburt, JC. "Dignity in end-of-life care: results of a national survey of U.S. physicians." J Pain Symptom Manage 44, no. 3 (September 2012): 331-339. Full Text Link to Item
  - Stulberg, DB, Dude, AM, Dahlquist, I, and Curlin, FA. "Obstetrician-gynecologists, religious institutions, and conflicts regarding patient-care policies." American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology 207, no. 1 (July 2012): 73.e1-73.e5. Full Text
  - Sobecki, JN, Curlin, FA, Rasinski, KA, and Lindau, ST. "What we don't talk about when we don't talk about sex: results of a national survey of U.S. obstetrician/gynecologists." The Journal of Sexual Medicine 9, no. 5 (May 2012): 1285-1294. Full Text
  - Chung, GS, Lawrence, RE, Curlin, FA, Arora, V, and Meltzer, DO. "Predictors of hospitalised patients' preferences for physician-directed medical decision-making." Journal of Medical Ethics 38, no. 2 (February 2012): 77-82. Full Text
  - Chung, GS, Lawrence, RE, Rasinski, KA, Yoon, JD, and Curlin, FA. "Obstetrician-gynecologists' beliefs about when pregnancy begins." Am J Obstet Gynecol 206, no. 2 (February 2012): 132.e1-132.e7. Full Text Link to Item
  - Lawrence, RE, Rasinski, KA, Yoon, JD, Koenig, HG, Meador, KG, and Curlin, FA. "Physicians' beliefs about faith-based treatments for alcoholism." Psychiatric Services 63, no. 6 (2012): 597-604. Full Text
  - Shin, JH, Yoon, JD, Rasinski, KA, Koenig, HG, Meador, KG, and Curlin, FA. "A Spiritual Problem? Primary Care Physicians' and Psychiatrists' Interpretations of Medically Unexplained Symptoms." Journal of General Internal Medicine (2012): 1-7. Full Text
  - Harris, LH, Cooper, A, Rasinski, KA, Curlin, FA, and Lyerly, AD. "Obstetrician-Gynecologists' Objections to and Willingness to Help Patients Obtain an Abortion (vol 118, pg 905, 2011)." OBSTETRICS AND GYNECOLOGY 118, no. 6 (December 2011): 1424-1424. Link to Item
  - Rasinski, KA, Yoon, JD, Kalad, YG, and Curlin, FA. "Obstetrician-gynaecologists' opinions about conscientious refusal of a request for abortion: results from a national vignette experiment." J Med Ethics 37, no. 12 (December 2011): 711-714. Full Text Link to Item
  - Stern, RM, Rasinski, KA, and Curlin, FA. "Jewish physicians' beliefs and practices regarding religion/spirituality in the clinical encounter." Journal of Religion and Health 50, no. 4 (December 2011): 806-817. Full Text
  - Williams, JA, Meltzer, D, Arora, V, Chung, G, and Curlin, FA. "Attention to inpatients' religious and spiritual concerns: predictors and association with patient satisfaction." Journal of General Internal Medicine 26, no. 11 (November 2011): 1265-1271. Full Text
  - Harris, LH, Cooper, A, Rasinski, KA, Curlin, FA, and Lyerly, AD. "Obstetrician-gynecologists' objections to and willingness to help patients obtain an abortion." Obstetrics and Gynecology 118, no. 4 (October 2011): 905-912. Full Text
  - Lawrence, RE, Rasinski, KA, Yoon, JD, and Curlin, FA. "Adolescents, contraception and confidentiality: a national survey of obstetrician--gynecologists." Contraception 84, no. 3 (September 2011): 259-265. Full Text
  - Lawrence, RE, Rasinski, KA, Yoon, JD, and Curlin, FA. "Obstetrician-gynecologists' beliefs about safe-sex and abstinence counseling." Int J Gynaecol Obstet 114, no. 3 (September 2011): 281-285. Full Text Link to Item
  - Stulberg, DB, Dude, AM, Dahlquist, I, and Curlin, FA. "Abortion provision among practicing obstetrician-gynecologists." Obstetrics and Gynecology 118, no. 3 (September 2011): 609-614. Full Text
  - Combs, MP, Antiel, RM, Tilburt, JC, Mueller, PS, and Curlin, FA. "Conscientious refusals to refer: findings from a national physician survey." J Med Ethics 37, no. 7 (July 2011): 397-401. Full Text Link to Item
  - Lawrence, RE, and Curlin, FA. "The rise of empirical research in medical ethics: a MacIntyrean critique and proposal." J Med Philos 36, no. 2 (April 2011): 206-216. Full Text Link to Item
  - Antiel, RM, Curlin, FA, Hook, CC, and Tilburt, JC. "The impact of medical school oaths and other professional codes of ethics: results of a national physician survey." Archives of Internal Medicine 171, no. 5 (March 2011): 469-471. (Letter) Full Text
  - Lawrence, RE, Rasinski, KA, Yoon, JD, and Curlin, FA. "Obstetrician-gynecologists' views on contraception and natural family planning: a national survey." American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology 204, no. 2 (February 2011): 124.e1-124.e7. Full Text
  - Lawrence, RE, Rasinski, KA, Yoon, JD, and Curlin, FA. "Factors influencing physicians' advice about female sterilization in USA: a national survey." Human Reproduction (Oxford, England) 26, no. 1 (January 2011): 106-111. Full Text
  - Rasinski, KA, Kalad, YG, Yoon, JD, and Curlin, FA. "An assessment of US physicians' training in religion, spirituality, and medicine." Med Teach 33, no. 11 (2011): 944-945. Full Text Link to Item
  - Yoon, JD, Rasinski, KA, and Curlin, FA. "Conflict and emotional exhaustion in obstetrician-gynaecologists: a national survey." J Med Ethics 36, no. 12 (December 2010): 731-735. Full Text Link to Item
  - Lawrence, RE, Rasinski, KA, Yoon, JD, and Curlin, FA. "Obstetrician-gynecologist physicians' beliefs about emergency contraception: a national survey." Contraception 82, no. 4 (October 2010): 324-330. Full Text Link to Item
  - Williams, JA, Meltzer, D, Arora, V, Chung, G, and Curlin, FA. "DISCUSSION OF INPATIENTS' RELIGIOUS AND SPIRITUAL CONCERNS DURING HOSPITALIZATION." GERONTOLOGIST 50 (October 2010): 170-170. Link to Item
  - Yoon, JD, Rasinski, KA, and Curlin, FA. "Moral controversy, directive counsel, and the doctor's role: findings from a national survey of obstetrician-gynecologists." Academic Medicine : Journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges 85, no. 9 (September 2010): 1475-1481. Full Text
  - Lawrence, RE, Rasinski, KA, Yoon, JD, and Curlin, FA. "Obstetrician-gynecologists' beliefs about assisted reproductive technologies." Obstet Gynecol 116, no. 1 (July 2010): 127-135. Full Text Link to Item
  - Stulberg, DB, Lawrence, RE, Shattuck, J, and Curlin, FA. "Religious hospitals and primary care physicians: conflicts over policies for patient care." Journal of General Internal Medicine 25, no. 7 (July 2010): 725-730. Full Text
  - Tilburt, JC, Miller, FG, Jenkins, S, Kaptchuk, TJ, Clarridge, B, Bolcic-Jankovic, D, Emanuel, EJ, and Curlin, FA. "Factors that influence practitioners' interpretations of evidence from alternative medicine trials: a factorial vignette experiment embedded in a national survey." Med Care 48, no. 4 (April 2010): 341-348. Link to Item
  - Bekelman, DB, Parry, C, Curlin, FA, Yamashita, TE, Fairclough, DL, and Wamboldt, FS. "A comparison of two spirituality instruments and their relationship with depression and quality of life in chronic heart failure." Journal of Pain and Symptom Management 39, no. 3 (March 2010): 515-526. Full Text
  - Cellarius, V, and Henry, B. "Justifying different levels of palliative sedation." Annals of internal medicine 152, no. 5 (March 2010): 332-. (Letter) Full Text
  - Manek, NJ, Crowson, CS, Ottenberg, AL, Curlin, FA, Kaptchuk, TJ, and Tilburt, JC. "What rheumatologists in the United States think of complementary and alternative medicine: results of a national survey. (Published online)" BMC Complement Altern Med 10 (January 28, 2010): 5-. Full Text Link to Item
  - Fitchett, G, Rasinski, K, Cadge, W, and Curlin, FA. "Physicians' experience and satisfaction with chaplains: a national survey." Arch Intern Med 169, no. 19 (October 26, 2009): 1808-1810. (Letter) Full Text Link to Item
  - Antiel, RM, Curlin, FA, James, KM, and Tilburt, JC. "Physicians' beliefs and U.S. health care reform--a national survey." The New England Journal of Medicine 361, no. 14 (October 2009): e23-null. Full Text
  - Curlin, FA, Rasinski, KA, Kaptchuk, TJ, Emanuel, EJ, Miller, FG, and Tilburt, JC. "Religion, clinicians, and the integration of complementary and alternative medicines." Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine (New York, N.Y.) 15, no. 9 (September 2009): 987-994. Full Text
  - Lawrence, RE, and Curlin, FA. "Physicians' beliefs about conscience in medicine: a national survey." Academic Medicine : Journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges 84, no. 9 (September 2009): 1276-1282. Full Text
  - Tilburt, JC, Curlin, FA, Kaptchuk, TJ, Clarridge, B, Bolcic-Jankovic, D, Emanuel, EJ, and Miller, FG. "Alternative medicine research in clinical practice: a US national survey." Arch Intern Med 169, no. 7 (April 13, 2009): 670-677. Full Text Link to Item
  - Lawrence, RE, and Curlin, FA. "Autonomy, religion and clinical decisions: findings from a national physician survey." J Med Ethics 35, no. 4 (April 2009): 214-218. Full Text Link to Item
  - Williams, J, Meltzer, DO, Arora, V, and Curlin, FA. "DISCUSSION OF SPIRITUAL CONCERNS DURING ACUTE HOSPITALIZATION: PATIENT REPORTS AND PATIENT SATISFACTION." JOURNAL OF INVESTIGATIVE MEDICINE 57, no. 3 (March 2009): 568-569. Link to Item
  - Curlin, FA, Lawrence, RE, and Fredrickson, J. "An ethical façade? Medical students' miscomprehensions of substituted judgment." PLoS One 4, no. 2 (2009): e4374-. Full Text Link to Item
  - Curlin, FA. "Commentary: A case for studying the relationship between religion and the practice of medicine." Acad Med 83, no. 12 (December 2008): 1118-1120. Full Text Link to Item
  - Ishibashi, KL, Koopmans, J, Curlin, FA, Alexander, KA, and Ross, LF. "Pediatricians are more supportive of the human papillomavirus vaccine than the general public." Southern Medical Journal 101, no. 12 (December 2008): 1216-1221. Full Text
  - Ishibashi, KL, Koopmans, J, Curlin, FA, Alexander, KA, and Ross, LF. "Paediatricians' attitudes and practices towards HPV vaccination." Acta Paediatr 97, no. 11 (November 2008): 1550-1556. Full Text Link to Item
  - Tilburt, JC, Emanuel, EJ, Kaptchuk, TJ, Curlin, FA, and Miller, FG. "Prescribing "placebo treatments": results of national survey of US internists and rheumatologists." Bmj (Clinical Research Ed.) 337 (October 23, 2008): a1938-null. Full Text
  - Curlin, FA, Nwodim, C, Vance, JL, Chin, MH, and Lantos, JD. "To die, to sleep: US physicians' religious and other objections to physician-assisted suicide, terminal sedation, and withdrawal of life support." The American Journal of Hospice & Palliative Care 25, no. 2 (April 2008): 112-120. Full Text
  - Lawrence, RE, and Curlin, FA. "Misplaced flexibility: revise policies but cling to principles." Am J Bioeth 8, no. 4 (April 2008): 36-37. Full Text Link to Item
  - Lantos, JD, and Curlin, FA. "Religion, conscience and clinical decisions." Acta Paediatr 97, no. 3 (March 2008): 265-266. Full Text Link to Item
  - Curlin, FA, Dinner, SN, and Lindau, ST. "Of more than one mind: obstetrician-gynecologists' approaches to morally controversial decisions in sexual and reproductive healthcare." J Clin Ethics 19, no. 1 (2008): 11-21. Link to Item
  - Curlin, FA. "Conscience and clinical practice: medical ethics in the face of moral controversy." Theor Med Bioeth 29, no. 3 (2008): 129-133. Full Text Link to Item
  - Tilburt, JC, Emanuel, EJ, Kaptchuk, TJ, Curlin, FA, and Miller, FG. "Prescribing "placebo treatments": Results of national survey of US internists and rheumatologists." BMJ 337, no. 7678 (2008): 1097-1100. Full Text
  - Lawrence, RE, and Curlin, FA. "Response to Commentators on “Clash of Definitions: Controversies about Conscience in Medicine”." The American Journal of Bioethics 7, no. 12 (December 17, 2007): W1-W2. Full Text
  - Curlin, FA, Lawrence, RE, Odell, S, Chin, MH, Lantos, JD, Koenig, HG, and Meador, KG. "Religion, spirituality, and medicine: psychiatrists' and other physicians' differing observations, interpretations, and clinical approaches." The American Journal of Psychiatry 164, no. 12 (December 2007): 1825-1831. Full Text
  - Lawrence, RE, and Curlin, FA. "Clash of definitions: controversies about conscience in medicine." Am J Bioeth 7, no. 12 (December 2007): 10-14. Full Text Link to Item
  - Lawrence, RE, and Curlin, FA. "Response to commentators on "Clash of definitions: Controversies about conscience in medicine"." AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BIOETHICS 7, no. 12 (December 2007): W1-+. Full Text Link to Item
  - Curlin, FA, Odell, SV, Lawrence, RE, Chin, MH, Lantos, JD, Meador, KG, and Koenig, HG. "The relationship between psychiatry and religion among U.S. physicians." Psychiatric Services (Washington, D.C.) 58, no. 9 (September 2007): 1193-1198. Full Text
  - Curlin, FA, Dugdale, LS, Lantos, JD, and Chin, MH. "Do religious physicians disproportionately care for the underserved?." Ann Fam Med 5, no. 4 (July 2007): 353-360. Full Text Link to Item
  - Curlin, FA, and Roach, CJ. "By intuitions differently formed: how physicians assess and respond to spiritual issues in the clinical encounter." Am J Bioeth 7, no. 7 (July 2007): 19-20. Full Text Link to Item
  - Curlin, FA. "Caution: conscience is the limb on which medical ethics sits." Am J Bioeth 7, no. 6 (June 2007): 30-32. Full Text Link to Item
  - Curlin, FA, Lawrence, RE, and Lantos, JD. "Religion, conscience, and controversial clinical practices - Reply." NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE 356, no. 18 (May 3, 2007): 1891-1892. Link to Item
  - Curlin, FA, Lawrence, RE, and Lantos, JD. "The authors reply [18]." New England Journal of Medicine 356, no. 18 (May 3, 2007): 1891-1892. (Letter)
  - Curlin, FA, Sellergren, SA, Lantos, JD, and Chin, MH. "Physicians' observations and interpretations of the influence of religion and spirituality on health." Archives of Internal Medicine 167, no. 7 (April 2007): 649-654. Full Text
  - Curlin, FA, Lawrence, RE, Chin, MH, and Lantos, JD. "Religion, conscience, and controversial clinical practices." The New England Journal of Medicine 356, no. 6 (February 2007): 593-600. Full Text
  - Curlin, FA, Meador, KG, and Koenig, HG. "In reply [4]." Psychiatric Services 58, no. 11 (2007): 1500-1501. Full Text
  - Curlin, FA. "Erratum: No method, thus madness (Hastings Center Report (July-August 2006))." Hastings Center Report 37, no. 1 (January 1, 2007): 8-.
  - Curlin, FA, Serrano, KD, Baker, MG, Carricaburu, SL, Smucker, DR, and Chin, MH. "Following the call: how providers make sense of their decisions to work in faith-based and secular urban community health centers." J Health Care Poor Underserved 17, no. 4 (November 2006): 944-957. Full Text Link to Item
  - Curlin, FA. "Spirituality and lifestyle: what clinicians need to know." South Med J 99, no. 10 (October 2006): 1170-1171. Full Text Link to Item
  - Curlin, FA, Chin, MH, Sellergren, SA, Roach, CJ, and Lantos, JD. "The association of physicians' religious characteristics with their attitudes and self-reported behaviors regarding religion and spirituality in the clinical encounter." Medical Care 44, no. 5 (May 2006): 446-453. Full Text
  - Curlin, FA, Kellemen, J, Fredrickson, J, and Gorawara-Bhat, R. "How do physicians' religious beliefs shape their integration of unconventional healing practices? A qualitative study." JOURNAL OF GENERAL INTERNAL MEDICINE 21 (April 2006): 66-66. Link to Item
  - Gee, L, Smucker, DR, Chin, MH, and Curlin, FA. "Partnering together? Relationships between faith-based community health centers and neighborhood congregations." South Med J 98, no. 12 (December 2005): 1245-1250. Full Text Link to Item
  - Curlin, FA, Roach, CJ, Gorawara-Bhat, R, Lantos, JD, and Chin, MH. "How are religion and spirituality related to health? A study of physicians' perspectives." South Med J 98, no. 8 (August 2005): 761-766. Full Text Link to Item
  - Curlin, FA, Lantos, JD, Roach, CJ, Sellergren, SA, and Chin, MH. "Religious characteristics of U.S. physicians: a national survey." J Gen Intern Med 20, no. 7 (July 2005): 629-634. Full Text Link to Item
  - Curlin, FA, and Hall, DE. "Regarding plan B: Science and politics cannot be separated (vol 105, pg 1149, 2005)." OBSTETRICS AND GYNECOLOGY 106, no. 1 (July 2005): 201-201. Link to Item
  - Curlin, FA, and Hall, DE. "Erratum: Regarding plan B: Science and politics cannot be separated (Obstetrics and Gynecology (2005) 105 (1149-1150))." Obstetrics and Gynecology 106, no. 1 (July 1, 2005): 201-.
  - Curlin, FA. "Euthanasia in severely ill newborns." N Engl J Med 352, no. 22 (June 2, 2005): 2353-2355. (Letter) Link to Item
  - Curlin, FA. "Euthanasia in severely ill newborns." NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE 352, no. 22 (June 2, 2005): 2354-2354. Link to Item
  - Curlin, FA, and Hall, DE. "Regarding Plan B: science and politics cannot be separated." Obstet Gynecol 105, no. 5 Pt 1 (May 2005): 1148-1150. (Letter) Full Text Link to Item
  - Curlin, FA, and Hall, DE. "Strangers or friends? A proposal for a new spirituality-in-medicine ethic (vol 20, pg 370, 2005)." JOURNAL OF GENERAL INTERNAL MEDICINE 20, no. 5 (May 2005): 485-485. Full Text Link to Item
  - Curlin, FA, and Hall, DE. "Strangers or friends? A proposal for a new spirituality-in-medicine ethic." J Gen Intern Med 20, no. 4 (April 2005): 370-374. Full Text Link to Item
  - Curlin, FA, Roach, CJ, Gorawara-Bhat, R, Lantos, JD, and Chin, MH. "When patients choose faith over medicine: physician perspectives on religiously related conflict in the medical encounter." Arch Intern Med 165, no. 1 (January 10, 2005): 88-91. Full Text Link to Item
  - Curlin, FA, and Moschovis, PP. "Is religious devotion relevant to the doctor-patient relationship?." J Fam Pract 53, no. 8 (August 2004): 632-636. Link to Item
  - Hall, DE, and Curlin, F. "Can physicians' care be neutral regarding religion?." Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges 79, no. 7 (July 2004): 677-679. Full Text
  - Hall, DE, Curlin, F, and Koenig, HG. "When clinical medicine collides with religion." Lancet 362 Suppl (December 2003): s28-s29. Link to Item
  - Iwashyna, TJ, Curlin, FA, and Christakis, NA. "Racial, ethnic, and affluence differences in elderly patients' use of teaching hospitals." Journal of General Internal Medicine 17, no. 9 (September 2002): 696-703. Full Text
- Conference Papers
  - Karches, K, Meltzer, D, and Curlin, FA. "RELIGIOSITY AND SPIRITUALITY AS PREDICTORS OF MEDICAL INPATIENTS' END-OF-LIFE CARE PREFERENCES." April 2010. Link to Item
  - Tilburt, J, Jenkins, S, Ottenberg, A, Bolcic-Jankovic, D, Clarridge, B, Kaptchuk, TJ, Miller, FG, Emanuel, E, and Curlin, FA. "WHAT INFLUENCES CLINICIANS' JUDGMENTS ABOUT COMPLEMENTARY AND ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE RESEARCH EVIDENCE: A RANDOMIZED EXPERIMENTAL VIGNETTE STUDY." April 2009. Link to Item
  - Curlin, FA, and Tilburt, JC. "Clinicians, religion, and the integration of complementary and alternative medicines." March 2008. Link to Item
  - Tilburt, J, Curlin, FA, Emanuel, E, Kaptchuk, TJ, and Miller, FG. "Does clinical trial evidence on CAM translate into clinical practice: A national survey of physicians and CAM practitioners." March 2008. Link to Item
  - Tilburt, J, Emanuel, E, Kaptchuk, TJ, Curlin, FA, and Miller, FG. "Placebo prescribing among US physicians: Results of a national survey." March 2008. Link to Item
  - Curlin, FA, Lawrence, R, Chin, MH, and Lantos, JD. "Religion, conscience, and morally controversial clinical practices: Results from a national physician survey." March 2007. Full Text Link to Item
  - Curlin, FA, Seltergren, S, Lantos, J, and Chin, MH. "Do religion and spirituality influence health? The effect of physicians' religious characteristics on their beliefs and observations." April 2005. Link to Item
  - Curlin, FA, Lantos, J, Sellergren, S, Roach, C, and Chin, MH. "Physician religiosity and approaches to spirituality in medicine." April 2004. Link to Item
Teaching & Mentoring
Recent Courses
- XTIANETH 807: Introduction to Medical Ethics 2018
- XTIANETH 999: DIRECTED STUDY 2018
Advising & Mentoring
- Dr. Curlin mentors Duke medical students and trainees in scholarly projects at the intersection of medicine, ethics, and religion. He is particularly keen to serve as a mentor on analytical and normative projects, but he also has limited opportunities for mentored work on empirical research in this domain.
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- Bass Connections Faculty Team Member . Generosity and Gratitude: Mechanisms, Motivations and Models of Living Kidney Donation . July 2015 - May 2016 2015 - 2016

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