Loretta M. Kopelman, Ph.D.   Professor of Medical Humanities

Loretta M. Kopelman, Ph.D., Professor of Medical Humanities Dr. Kopelman founded and chaired the Department of Medical Humanities at the Brody School of Medicine from 1978 to 2005. She received her doctorate in Philosophy from the University of Rochester. She was founding president of the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities and President of the Society for Health and Human Values. She was chosen to be the 2007 recipient of Bartholome Award in Pediatric Ethics from the American Academy of Pediatrics. She was a member of the Institute of Medicine Committee on Research with Children (2002-4). She was selected to be a Fellow of the Hastings Center and a member of the Committee on Philosophy and Medicine (2007-2010) of the American Philosophical Association. She serves on many editorial boards including: The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy; Philosophy, Ethics and Humanities in Medicine; ASBH Exchange; Medical Humanities; Developing World Bioethics; Philosophy and Medicine; and Philosophy, Psychiatry and Psychology; she was research ethics editor for the second and third editions of The Encyclopedia of Bioethics. She has published over 140 articles on medical ethics, bioethics, the rights of women, children and retarded individuals, research ethics, philosophy and medicine, education, consent, competency, and bias in allocating health care and making diagnoses. She has published in The New England Journal of Medicine; The Journal of the American Medical Association; The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy; The Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics; Pediatrics; Academic Medicine; Philosophy, Psychiatry and Psychology; Mount Sinai Journal of Medicine and others. Her edited or co-edited books are: The Rights of Children and Retarded Persons; Ethics and Mental Retardation; Critical Care Medicine; Children and Health Care: Moral and Social Issues; Building Bioethics: Conversations with Clouser and Friends; and Physician-Assisted Suicide: What are the Issues?; and Ethics and AIDS in Africa. She is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and Phi Kappa Phi.

e-mail: kopelmanlo@ecu.edu