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We are recruiting an open rank, tenure track/tenured faculty member with expertise in clinical ethics consultation to begin as early as September 2024. This position is within The Department and Institute of Bioethics and Health Humanities (IBHH), housed in the School of Public and Population Health at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston.

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50th Anniversary of the Institute for Bioethics and Health Humanities Timeline

In April of 1970, both The University of Texas Graduate School of Biomedical Science at Houston and The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston sponsored the symposium "Humanism in Medicine" that would help shape and give impetus to the new institute that would emerge at UTMB in 1973. This new institute would be dedicated to medicine and the humanities.

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Rebecca Permar to attend summer program at Cardiff University

Apr 25, 2022, 08:00 AM by User Not Found

Rebecca Permar, who successfully defended her Medical Humanities PhD dissertation “Of Cyborgs and Chimeras: Our Future with Emerging Technologies” on March 29th, has been accepted into the ScienceHumanities International Summer School 2022: "Energies” at Cardiff University in Wales, June 6-10. This competitive postgraduate summer school is open to researchers worldwide but has only twelve spaces available. It features “seminars by leading figures from Literature and Science, History of Science/Medicine, Critical Theory, and Environmental Humanities” and offers workshops in publishing and international networking opportunities for early career academics.