Faculty Profiles

Felicia G. Cohn, Ph.D.

Director of Medical Ethics
University of California, Irvine College of Medicine
Educational Affairs

Administrative Offices:
Medical Education Building 802
Irvine, CA 92697-4089
Phone: 949-824-9158
Fax: 949-824-2485

Email: fcohn@uci.edu

"We cloak medical education and clinical practice in the robes of science, pretending that objectivity guides our practice. But medicine is more art than science. The humanities provide a forum for appreciating the subjectivity of treating human beings who look nothing like what the textbooks describe. The secret of the care of the patient is not in a test tube full of blood or an EKG, but as Francis Peabody reminds us, the secret is in caring for the patient."

Degrees:

Ph.D. Religious Ethics (Bioethics), Religious Studies Department, University of Virginia, 1996. Dissertation: "Dialogue in Medicine: Martin Buber and the Physician-Patient Relationship." M.A. Religious Ethics (Bioethics) Univesity of Virginia Religious Studies Department, 1991.

Publications:

  1. Felicia Cohn, Desiree Lie, Mediating the Gap between the White Coat Ceremony and the Ethics and Professionalism Curriculum, Academic Medicine, forthcoming 2002.
  2. Felicia Cohn, Existential Medicine: Martin Buber and Physician-Patient Relationships, The Journal of Continuing Education in the Health Professions, 21:3 (Summer 2001).
  3. Richard D. Krugman, Felicia Cohn, Time to End Health Professional Neglect of Cycle of Violence, Lancet, 358: 9280 (August 11, 2001)
  4. Joanne Lynn, Kier Olsen DeVries, Hal R. Arkes, Marguerite Stevens, Felicia Cohn, Pat Murphy, Kenneth E. Covinsky, Mary Beth Hamel, Neal V. Dawson, Joel Tsevat, "Ineffectiveness of the SUPPORT Intervention: Review of the Explanations," Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 48:5 (May 2000) S214-S221.
  5. Joanne Lynn, Hal R. Arkes, Marguerite Stevens, Felicia Cohn, Barbara Koenig, Ellen Fox, Neal V. Dawson, Russell S. Phillips, Mary Beth Hamel, Joel Tsevat, "Rethinking Fundamental Assumptions: SUPPORT's Implications for Future Reform," Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 48:5 (May 2000) S206-S213.
  6. Olle Jane Z. Saler, Gerri Frager, Marcia Levetown, Felicia Cohn, Michael Lipson, for the National Consensus Conference on Medical Education for Care near the End of Life, "Incorporating Palliative Care into Pediatric Education: Principles, Challenges, and Opportunities," Pediatrics 105:3 (March 2000) 575-584.
  7. Felicia Cohn, "The Ethics of End-of-Life Care for Prison Inmates," Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics 27:3 (Fall 1999) 252-259.

Honors: Member, Academy of Medicine of the District of Columbia

Professional Societies:

  • American Society for Bioethics and Humanities
  • American Geriatrics Society
  • American Society for Law, Medicine, and Ethics
  • Hastings Center
  • International Association of Bioethics
  • Kennedy Institute of Ethics

 



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