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Join Humanities Texas and the McGovern Center for Humanities and Ethics for an afternoon presentation and book-signing with Pulitzer Prize-winning author David Oshinsky on Friday, December 2, 2016, at The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH).

Oshinsky will discuss his new book, Bellevue: Three Centuries of Medicine and Mayhem at America’s Most Storied Hospital, which chronicles the history of America's oldest hospital and charts the rise of New York City to the nation's preeminent city, the path of American medicine, and the growth of a civic institution.

Books will be available for purchase at the MFAH Brown Auditorium Theater.

Friday, December 2, 2016
1:30 p.m.–3 p.m.

@ The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Brown Auditorium Theater

1001 Bissonnet Street
Houston, TX 77005

This event is free and open to the public, but seating is limited. RSVP at 512.440.1991 or rsvp_houston@humanitiestexas.org.


Free parking is available in the street-level lot directly across from the Law Building at 1001 Bissonnet Street. Additional free parking is available in the street-level lot on Main Street immediately to the north of First Presbyterian Church. Paid parking is available on a limited basis in the MFAH Parking Garage at 5600 Fannin Street.

David Oshinsky delivers a lecture at Humanities Texas's "Post-War America, 1945–1960" teacher institute in June 2016.