Teaching Health Humanities

Olivia Banner is Assistant Professor of Critical Media Studies at the University of Texas at Dallas. Her scholarship and teaching, grounded in critical race, disability, and feminist studies, encompass cultural studies of digital and data cultures, with a particular focus on medicine, health, and media.

Nathan Carlin is an Associate Professor and the holder of the Samuel Karff Chair in the McGovern Center for Humanities and Ethics at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth), where he directs the Medical Humanities and Ethics Certificate Program for medical students. Dr. Carlin has published over 100 chapters, articles, book reviews, and commentaries. He also is the author or the co-author of five previous books.

Thomas R. Cole is Professor and Director of the McGovern Center for Humanities and Ethics at the University of Texas Health Science Center in Houston. His body of work--in books, films and articles--ranges from the cultural history of aging and humanistic gerontology to civil rights history, life story writing, and medical/health humanities. His work has been featured at the United Nations, on NPR, and at the President's Council for Bioethics.