Black Health, book by Keisha Ray released today
Center assistant professor Keisha Ray, PhD, wrote Black Health: The Social, Political, and Cultural Determinants of Black People’s Health, which was released today by Oxford University Press. Ray’s book is part of the publisher’s Bioethics for Social Justice series and…
New book by Rev. Nathan Carlin released in September
Pathographies of Mental Illness is the title of a new book by Center director and Karff Chair, Reverend Nathan Carlin, PhD. The text is part of the Cambridge University Press series, “Elements in Bioethics and Neuroethics.” Carlin’s book is a…
Former postdoctoral fellow co-edits book on disability bioethics
Former McGovern Center postdoctoral fellow Christine Wieseler, PhD, co-edited The Disability Bioethics Reader with Joel Michael Reynolds, PhD (Georgetown University). The book is the first introduction to bioethics through the lens of critical disability studies and the philosophy of disability….
Nathan Carlin has a conversation with Samuel Shem
Reverend Dr. Nathan Carlin recently had a conversation with Samuel Shem, author of The House of God, The Spirit of the Place, and other books. The conversation is featured in Episode 6 of Season 2 of Conversations with Shem, a…
Special issue of Pastoral Psychology focuses on Nathan Carlin’s book
The peer-reviewed journal Pastoral Psychology released online on December 3 a special issue on Pastoral Aesthetics: A Theological Perspective on Principlist Bioethics. The book, published by Oxford University Press in 2019, was authored by professor and Center director, Reverend Nathan…
Nathan Carlin’s latest book to be released this month
Contemporary Physician-Authors: Exploring the Insights of Doctors Who Write is an edited book from Center director and professor, Nathan Carlin, PhD. The book examines the phenomenon of physician-authors and focuses on doctors who write and the stories they tell. The…
Eldrewey Stearnes’ passing mourned by Thomas Cole, the McGovern Center
Civil rights activist Eldrewey Stearnes passed away on December 23 at the age of 89. Stearnes was known for leading sit-ins and demonstrations to desegregate Houston. A recent piece in the Houston Chronicle about Stearnes includes comments from Thomas Cole,…
McGovern Center course features author in discussion
While the move to an online learning format requires distancing of students and faculty, in one McGovern Medical School course, it is allowing an up-close perspective from an important point of view – the author in discussion. Humanistic Elements of…
Thomas Cole, Old Man Country featured in podcast
Journalist Susan Flory created The Big Middle, a podcast featuring “spirited conversations about living healthy longer, aging differently.” In the October 22 episode, Flory spoke with Thomas Cole, PhD, about aging, the fourth age, and his book Old Man Country.
New forthcoming book from Nathan Carlin
Nathan Carlin, PhD, received a contract from Oxford University Press to write a monograph on medicine and secularization. Its tentative title is How Doctors Became Our Priests: Sacralizations and Secularizations of Medicine, and it will explore observations by sociologists and…