The John P. McGovern Endowed Lectureship in Family, Health, and Human Values
2013
Dr. Daniel Carpenter
Allie S. Freed Professor of Government and Director of the Center for American Political Studies at Harvard University
Lecture title: “How Regulation Makes Markets in American Health Care”
2012
Dr. Alexandra Minna Stern
Zina Pitcher Collegiate Professor in the History of Medicine, University of Michigan
Lecture title: “Don’t Reduce Me to a Label’: Disability Rights, Genetic Diagnosis, and Social Values”
UH Press Release
2011
Dr. Abraham Verghese
Physician and Novelist
Lecture title: A Life in Medicine and Humanities”
UH Press Release
2010
Dr. Larry Kaiser
President, UT Health Science Center Houston
Lecture title: “Give and Take: Organ Transplantation in the Era of Health Care Reform”
2008
Katha Pollitt
Poet/Critic/Memoirist
Lecture title: “Gender, Creativity, and the New Longevity”
UH Press release | Houston Chronicle Article
2007
Cathy Greenblat
Professor of Sociology Emerita, Rutgers University
Lecture title: “End of Life Issues: a Visual Sociology”
Announcement (Visual Studies)
2005
Steven Mintz
Professor of History, University of Houston
Lecture title: “A History of Childhood in America”
Press Release