The Innervations event series is sponsored by the Medical Humanities Program in the Rice University School of Humanities in collaboration with Humanities Texas; the UT Health McGovern Medical School; the McGovern Center for Humanities and Ethics; the Baylor College of Medicine Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy and its Narrative Medicine Program; the University of Houston Medicine and Society Program; the Texas Woman's University; the organization Inprint, and the Health Museum (the John P. McGovern Museum of Health and Medical Science).