The Center for Medical Humanities & Ethics The Center for Medical Humanities & Ethics offers several public events each month, most of which are free. This feed gives details on dates, times, locations and topics. http://www.texashumanities.org National Healthcare Decisions Day April 16 is National Healthcare Decisions Day. Join Americans across the country in making future healthcare decisions known to family, friends and healthcare providers. Share your wishes and complete your advance directive, because YOUR DECISIONS MATTER. http://www.nationalhealthcaredecisionsday.org End of Life Conversations Klugman to lead commmunity class three Tuesdays in April http://www.texashumanities.org/pdf/end_of_life_conversations_040809.pdf Ethics Bites. Financing Health Care: Is There a More Ethical Way? Thursday, March 26 at 12 PM in Room 494L. Presented by Fred Campbell, MD http://www.texashumanities.com/ethicsbites.cfm Conversations About Ethics: The Frost Lecture in Medical Ethics "The Worth of a Child" presented by Hastings Center President Thomas Murray, PhD. Monday, March 30 at 6:30 PM in Room 3.102. Reception 5:30 - 6:30 PM. http://www.texashumanities.com/conversations_about_ethics.cfm 2nd Annual Community Service Learning Conference "CSL: From Extracurricular to Embedded," Thursday, April 2. http://www.texashumanities.com/cslconference.cfm Night of the Arts Fundaraiser for the Student-Run Free Clinics at Samm Shelter and Alpha Home. Friday, April 3, 6:30 PM. http://www.texashumanities.org/pdf/noa_040309.pdf Relay for Life Join the Center's team, called Ethics in Action, for the Relay for Life on Friday, April 10 at the HSC track. http://main.acsevents.org/goto/CMHE Visual Learning and Digital Photography in Health Care February 9, 2009, 12 - 12:50 PM in Room 409L. Presented by Richard Usatine, MD. http://www.texashumanities.com/usatine.cfm Research Ethics Roundup: The Ethics of Authorship February 10, 2009, 12 - 12:50 PM in Room 4.484T. Presented by Linda McManus, PhD. http://www.texashumanities.com/rer.cfm Ethics Bites: Forced Abandonment and Euthanasia, Questions from Hurricane Katrina February 12, 2009, 12 - 12:50 PM in Room 2.020. Presented by Ken Kipnis, PhD. http://www.texashumanities.org/pdf/EthicsBites_021209.pdf Project Medishare Report February 17, 2009, 12 - 12:50 PM in the School of Nursing's Hurd Auditorium. Presented by students and mentors who travelled to rural Haiti for a service project this December. http://www.texashumanities.org/images_humanities/haiti_invite_020409.jpg Cutting for Stone: A Reading by Abraham Verghese February 18, 2009, Reading: 6-7 PM and Reception/Signing: 7-8 PM in the UTHSCSA Auditorium. http://www.texashumanities.com/verghese.cfm Frost Lecture in Medical Ethics: The Worth of a Child March 30, 2009, Reception 5:30 - 6:30 PM and Presentation 6:30 - 7:30 PM in Room 3.102. Presented by Hasting's Center President Thomas Murray, PhD. http://www.texashumanities.com/events.cfm CSL: From Extracurricular to Embedded Thursday, April 2, 2009 in the UTHSCSA Auditorium. 8 AM - 3 PM. Must register to attend - registration is free. http://www.texashumanities.com/cslconference.cfm Night of the Arts Friday, April 3, 2009 in the UTHSCSA Auditorium. Save the date for this annual fundraiser for the Student-Run Free Clinics at SAMM and Alpha Home. http://www.texashumanities.com/events.cfm