The Innervations event series is sponsored by the Program in Medical Humanities in the Rice University School of Humanities and Rice's Medical Humanities Research Institute 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).
Reading and Conversation with Rachel Pearson
Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2024 | 6 p.m. | Kraft Hall 130
Reception to follow
Speaker:
Rachel Pearson, MD, PhD
Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Distinguished Professor in Bioethics
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and Medical Humanities
Humanities Director, Charles E. Cheever Jr. Center for Medical Humanities & Ethics
UT Health San Antonio
Rachel Pearson is a pediatric physician at UT Health San Antonio and the author of No Apparent Distress: A Doctor’s Coming-of-Age on the Front Lines of American Medicine, a book based on her experiences as a medical student at University of Texas Medical Branch. Her essays explore ethical questions and relate stories from her work in pediatrics and have been featured in The New York Review of Books, The New Yorker, Scientific American, The Guardian and The Texas Observer.
Moderator:
Cameron Dezen Hammon
Lecturer in Creative Writing, Department of English, Rice University
This event is supported by the Program in Medical Humanities in the School of Humanities, Rice’s Medical Humanities Research Institute and Baylor College of Medicine’s Humanities Expression and Arts Lab.