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).
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. |