Lecture & Seminar Series

The John P. McGovern, M. D. Center for Health, Humanities, and the Human Spirit sponsors numerous lectures by prominent scholars from throughout the country. These lectures are open to all students, faculty and staff In the Texas Medical Center.

       

Past Lecturers:

  • Raye Lynn Rath - "Yoga: The Nectar of Awareness"
  • Hannah Landecker, PhD - "Cells and Persons: HeLa and the Development of Human Cell Technologies"
  • Harvey Gordon, MD - "Inviting Death: Physician Assisted Suicide and Other End-of-Life Options"
  • James Duffy, MD - "The Crisis in American Healthcaring: Can the Medical Humanities Save the World?"
  • Sharon K. Ostwald, PhD - "Recovering from Stroke: The Journey Together"
  • Stanley J. Reiser, MD, MPA, PhD - "The Rise and Effects of Commercialism in Medicine: Is Urgent Change Needed?"
  • David Watts, MD - "Saving the Doctor-Patient Relationship: What's Literature Got to Do With It?"
  • Sarah Flick, MD - " Finding Wholeness: Mind/Body/Spirit Medicine in an Uncertain World"
  • Dax Cowart, JD, - "Who Should Decide? Paternalism and Mentally Competent Adults"
  • Rita Charon, PhD, MD, - "The Ethicality of Narrative Medicine"