Medical Humanities Community : USA : Texas

• Independent Scholars:
  • Mahala Yates Stripling, Ph.D. (Literature and Medicine, in particular bioethical and medical issues in literature, and biography [Richard Selzer])
    5121 Sealands Lane
    Fort Worth, TX 76116
    (817) 731-5337 (home)
    (817) 995-9150 (cell)
    DrRhetoric@aol.com
    http://www.medicalhumanities.net

• Baylor College of Medicine
  • Baruch Brody, Ph.D.
    Director, Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy
    Baylor College of Medicine
    One Baylor Plaza
    Houston, TX 77030
    (713) 798-3503; FAX:(713) 798-5678
    bbrody@bcm.tmc.edu
    [Required: 24 hour Medical Ethics Course (Yr 1), Ethics in Core Rotations; Elective: Reading (Yr 2), Clinical Ethics (Yrs 3, 4), Ethics for Residents]

• Baylor University College of Arts and Sciences
  Baylor University Waco, Texas 76798
  
  • Medical Humanities Program
    Dr. James Marcum, Director
    (254) 710-3745
    James_Marcum@baylor.edu

• Institute for Religion and Health, Houston
  http://www.religionandhealth.org/default.htm
  8100 Greenbriar, Ste. 220
  Houston, TX 77054
  (713) 797.0600
  jdoctor@instituterh.org

• Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center School of Medicine
  • Thomas McGovern, Ed.D. (Medical Ethics)
    Department of Psychiatry
    Texas Tech University
    Health Sciences Center
    3601 Fourth Street
    Lubbock, TX 79430
    (806) 743-2800; FAX: (806) 743-2784
    [Required: Physician in Society (Yr 1), Clinical and Medical
    Ethics (Yr 2), Ethical Issues in Psychiatry, Pediatrics (Yr 3, 4),
    Professional Ethics (Yr 4), Residency Training in Medical Ethics]

• University of Houston
  • William F. Monroe, Ph.D. (Literature and Medicine)
    Executive Associate Dean, The Honors College
    Director, The Medicine & Society Program at Houston
    Department of English
    University of Houston
    Houston, TX 77204-2001
    (713) 743-9007
    wmonroe@uh.edu
    http://www.class.uh.edu/English/faculty/monroe_w.asp

• The University of Texas at Austin
  • Brian A. Bremen, Ph.D. (Literature and Medicine, Rhetoric of Medicine, Narrative Medicine, Medical Ethics, the work of William Carlos Williams, Mind-body Relationship, AIDS Literature, Bibliotherapy)
    1 University Station, B5000
    The University of Texas at Austin
    Austin, TX 78712-0195
    (512) 471-7842; FAX: (512) 471-4909
    bremen@curly.cc.utexas.edu
    http://www.utexas.edu/cola/depts/english/faculty/profiles/Bremen/Brian%20A.%20/ [Junior/senior seminar, "The Literature of Medicine in the Medicine of Literature" in Plan II (an honors program) primarily for premed students]

• The University of Texas at Dallas
  • Medical and Scientific Humanities minor
    P.O. Box 830688
    Richardson, Texas 75083-0688
    (972) 883-2111
    http://www.utdallas.edu/

• University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas Medical School
  
  • Medical Humanities Interest Group

  • Program in Ethics in Science and Medicine

• The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston
  • Howard Brody, M.D., Ph.D. (Philosophy and Medicine, Medical Ethics)
    Director, Institute for the Medical Humanities
    2.210 Ashbel Smith Building
    The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston
    301 University Boulevard
    Galveston, TX 77555-1311
    (409) 772-2376; FAX: (409) 772-5640
    habrody@utmb.edu
    

  • Eric Avery, M.D. (Art and Medicine)
    eavery@utmb.edu

  • Ronald A. Carson, Ph.D. (Biomedical Ethics)
    racarson@utmb.edu

  • Michele A. Carter, M.S., Ph.D. (Biomedical Ethics)
    mcarter@utmb.edu

  • Anne Hudson Jones, Ph.D. (Literature and Medicine)
    Graduate Program Director, Institute for the Medical Humanities
    ahjones@utmb.edu
    

  • Cheryl L. Kaplan (Theater and Medicine)
    Director of Theater Outreach and Education
    (409) 772-9395
    clkaplan@utmb.edu

  • See additional listings at Institute's website

• University of Texas Medical School at Houston
  • The John P. McGovern, M. D. Center for Health, Humanities, and the Human Spirit
    [Required and elective courses; lecture series open to all students, faculty, and staff; research projects]

• University of Texas Medical School at San Antonio
  • Center for Medical Humanities and Ethics
    University of Texas Health Sciences Center San Antonio