For immediate release: Sept. 14, 2007
GALVESTON, Texas - The site for a series of televised lectures titled "Medical Ethics and the Holocaust" has changed. The lectures will be shown live in Room 1.102 of the School of Nursing/Allied Health Sciences building, 11th and Mechanic streets, on the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston campus. Free parking will be available in the surface parking facing the front of the building.
The two-hour lectures start at 6 p.m. Tuesdays, from Sept. 18 through Dec. 11. The telecasts are free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be provided. Tuesday's lecture features Arthur Caplan, director of the Center for Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania, presenting "Why Is It So Hard to Learn the Ethical Lessons of the Holocaust?"
The lectures are sponsored by the Holocaust Museum of Houston.
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 also is available at http://www.nodussolutions.com/MedicalEthics/.
The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston
Public Affairs Office
301 University Boulevard, Suite 3.102
Galveston, Texas 77555-0144
www.utmb.edu