LITERATURE + LECTURES

Holocaust Museum Houston presents How Healing Becomes Killing: Eugenics, Euthanasia and Extermination, Wednesday, September 29, 2010, at 3:00 PM . Location:  MSB 3.001, Auditorium of The University of Texas Medical School, 6431 Fannin, Houston, TX 77030.

Daniel Cardinal DiNardo (pictured) of the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston will participate in a panel discussion on the subject of eugenics in connection with the Houston Academy of Medicine-Texas Medical Center Library’s presentation of the traveling Holocaust Museum Houston exhibit of the same name.

Panelists will include Rabbi Samuel E. Karff and Sheldon Rubenfeld, M.D., who chaired the steering committee that developed the exhibit. The panel will be moderated by Thomas R. Cole, Ph.D., McGovern Chair in Medical Humanities and director of The John P. McGovern, M.D. Center for Humanities and Ethics at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston.

The event is free and open to the public. Parking will be available in Garage 4 of the TMC Campus. Refreshments will be served. For more information, call 713-799-7169 or e-mail beatriz.varman@exch.library.tmc.edu.