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).
Reading and Conversation with Rachel Pearson
Rachel Pearson, MD, PhD
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 ofNo 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 inThe New York Review of Books,The New Yorker,Scientific American,The GuardianandThe 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.
Ricardo Nuila is an associate professor of medicine, medical ethics and health policy at Baylor College of Medicine, where he directs the Humanities Expression and Arts Lab program.
Ricardo Nuila, ‘The People’s Hospital’ by Ricardo Nuila: Book Launch
March 30, 2023 7:30pmCDT
Asia Society Texas Center
All members of the Rice community and public are welcome.
The Program in Medical Humanities in the Rice University School of Humanities, in collaboration with Inprint and the Asia Society Texas Center, presents debut author Ricardo Nuila, MD, reading his book The People’s Hospital:Hope and Peril in American Medicine (Scribner, 2023). The program will include a conversation with writer Tayyba Maya Kanwal followed by a book signing and sale.
Tickets are available for free. Tickets plus a signed book copy are $25. For tickets, visit the Asia Society Texas website.
Ricardo Nuila is an associate professor of medicine, medical ethics and health policy at Baylor College of Medicine, where he directs the Humanities Expression and Arts Lab program.
Tayyba Maya Kanwal is fiction editor at Gulf Coast Journal. She is the winner of a 2022 Inprint Barthelme Prize in Fiction and an MFA candidate in the University of Houston Creative Writing Program.
JAVIER ZAMORA
Poet and Activist
Tho Journey: What a Young Child's Unaccompanied Voyage to America Tolls Us
About Our Patients
October 3, 2022
12-1:30 p.m. CT
Baylor College of Medicine Campus
Poet and activist Javier Zamora will read from his new book, Solito followed by a conversation about the health of undocumented people with Baylor College of Medicine's facultv member Dr. Ricardo Nuila. The first 12 attendees will receive a free signed copy of Solito.
JULIAN SAPORITI, Vietnamese and Italian-American Songwriter and Scholar
JULIAN SAPORITI
Vietnamese and Italian-American Songwriter and Scholar
Rice Workshop: Anything but a Paper: Transforming Research into Song and Film
March 3, 2022
11-12:30 pm, CT
Herring Hall 129
Julian Saporiti is a songwriter and scholar who will share his unique method of transforming academic research into public facing work, using art to reach broad, diverse audiences. He will describe his project No-No Boy and how he has transformed years of doctoral study into documentary flms, concerts and an album, “1975,” which NPR has called “one of the most insurgent pieces of music you’ll ever hear.” This presentation will pay special attention to communities from his research that have faced structural violence and health disparities, looking specifcally at Southeast Asian refugees and refugees navigating the U.S. southern border in recent years.
Medicine, Language, and the Body
Christina Rivera Garza
September 22, 2021
6 pm, CT
Cristina Rivera Garza is a writer and educator whose work transcends borders and boundaries.
On Sept. 22 at 6 p.m., the Matamoros, Mexico-born fiction writer and winner of a 2020 MacArthur Foundation “Genius Grant” will give this semester’s Innervations lecture on “Medicine, Language and the Body” that will — fittingly — include readings from her work in both Spanish and English.
A similarly bilingual Q&A will follow, moderated by Dr. Ricardo Nuila, associate professor of medicine, medical ethics and health policy and director of the Narrative Medicine Program at Baylor College of Medicine.
A similarly bilingual Q&A will follow, moderated by Dr. Ricardo Nuila, associate professor of medicine, medical ethics and health policy and director of the Narrative Medicine Program at Baylor College of Medicine.
Narrative Medicine Lecture Series - Innervations: Humanistic Medicine and Stories from the TMC with Esmè Wang, The Collected Schizophrenias
Wednesday, February 10, 2021
A Zoom webinar reading followed by an interview with Lacy M. Johnson, assistant professor of creative writing at Rice University. Free and open to the public.
Novelist and essayist Esmé Weijun Wang will discuss The Collected Schizophrenias(2019), winner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize. Opening with her journey toward a diagnosis of schizoaffective disorder, Wang writes of the medical community’s own disagreement about labels and procedures for diagnosing those with mental illness, and then follows an arc that examines the manifestations of schizophrenia in her life. An intimate, moving book written with the immediacy and directness of one who still struggles with the effects of mental and chronic illness, The Collected Schizophrenias cuts right to the core.
Sponsors: Rice University Medical Humanities Program and the Humanities Research Center, UT Health McGovern Medical School, McGovern Center for Humanities and Ethics, Humanities Texas, Baylor College of Medicine Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy | Narrative Medicine Program, University of Houston Medicine and Society Program, Texas Woman's University, Inprint, and The Health Museum | John P. McGovern Museum of Health and Medical Science.
Christie Watson
Narrative Medicine Speaker Series: The Language of Kindness
October 7, 2019
The Health Museum, Houston, TX
Innervations Series Past Event Videos
Cristina Rivera Garza, the 2020 winner of the MacArthur Foundation “Genius Grant” and the Distinguished Professor in Hispanic Studies and director of the Creative Writing Program in Spanish at the University of Houston, presented "Medicine, Language and the Body" on Sept. 22, 2021, as part of the event series, Innervations: Humanistic Medicine and Stories from the TMC. Rice University's Kirsten Ostherr, the Gladys Louise Fox Professor and chair of the Department of English, director of the Program in Medical Humanities and director of the Medical Futures Lab, offered welcome remarks and Ricardo Nuila, associate professor of medicine, medical ethics and health policy, and director of the Narrative Medicine Program at Baylor College of Medicine, led a conversation following a reading by Rivera Garza.
