For immediate release: Sept. 10, 2007
GALVESTON, Texas - The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston is collaborating with the Holocaust Museum of Houston to telecast a lecture series titled "Medical Ethics and the Holocaust" to University of Texas System campuses, including UTMB. The telecasts are free and open to the public. In Galveston, they will be shown in the Levin Hall South auditorium, 10th and Market streets.
The telecasts are scheduled from 6 to 8 p.m. Tuesdays, from Sept. 18 through Dec.11.
Cheyenne Martin, a medical ethicist at the UTMB School of Nursing and member of the lecture series steering committee, said seating at the museum site of the lectures is limited. "The telecasts open up the programs to far more people," she said.
The lecture topics examine medicine and science during the Nazi era as well as current moral and legal dilemmas in health care from euthanasia and assisted suicide to Abu Ghraib.
The UTMB Electronic Health Network is providing the staff and equipment to transmit a live feed of the lectures.
For more information, please contact Cheyenne Martin at (409) 772-8327, e-mail damartin@utmb.edu, or Dr. Steven Lieberman at (409) 772-3619, e-mail slieberman@utmb.edu. Information about the lectures is also available at http://www.nodussolutions.com/MedicalEthics/.
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