The Ware Lecture
Join us for the inaugural Ware Lecture at Austin Seminary on Wednesday, April 22, at 12 p.m. in McMillan 210, featuring The Rev. Dr. Nathan Carlin, on “The Secularization of Medicine: Ritual, Salvation, and Prophecy." Lunch will be provided for attendees of the lecture. RSVP is requested.
About the Ware LectureMade possible through a gift from the Ware Family of Dallas, Texas, the Ware Lecture was established to promote discussions at the Seminary on the relationship between medical sciences and theology.
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About the Lecturer
The Reverend Dr. Nathan Carlin is the Director of the McGovern Center for Humanities and Ethics at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth Houston). Dr. Carlin holds the Samuel Karff Chair and the rank of Professor.
Dr. Carlin is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Medical Humanities.
At McGovern Medical School, Dr. Carlin was elected as Chair of the Faculty Senate for 2018-2019, and has an appointment in the Department of Psychiatry. At the UTHealth School of Dentistry, he co-directs the Clinical Humanities Certificate Program for dental students, and he is a founding member of the National Collaborative on Humanities and Ethics in Dentistry.
Dr. Carlin is a medical humanities scholar with an interest in psychoanalysis and religion. His teaching interests include clinician-writing, pathography, death and dying, and literature and medicine.
For keynotes and Grand Rounds, Dr. Carlin can speak on the following topics: the founding of bioethics; the Hippocratic Oath; pastoral theology and principlism; secularization and medicine; psychoanalysis and religion; and the ethics of the fiction of Samuel Shem.
Dr. Carlin has published 12 books. In recent years, the focus of his writing has been oriented toward developing core texts for medical humanities. Some sample texts in this regard include Medical Humanities: An Introduction (Cambridge University Press); Teaching Health Humanities (Oxford University Press); Contemporary-Physician Authors: Exploring the Insights of Doctors Who Write (Routledge); Pathographies of Mental Illness (Cambridge University Press); The Secularization of Medicine (Oxford University Press); and Medicine, Meaning, and Identity (Oxford University Press).
Currently, Dr. Carlin is working with Renee Flores and Joanne Lynn, preparing the third edition of Handbook for Mortals: Guidance for People Facing Serious Illness, which is under contract with Oxford University Press.
Dr. Carlin received the 2025 Health Humanities Consortium Visionary Award for his critical contributions to the field of health humanities.