A copy of the program for the entire series is printed below. Dr. Blair Justice, associate dean for academic affairs at the UT-Houston School of Public Health . Michael Hammond, dean of the Shepherd School of Music, Rice University . Dr. Stanley Reiser, Griff T. Ross Professor of Humanities and Technology in Health Care, UT Houston Health Science Center. We explore the line between creativity and madness.
Creativity is a prime determinate of our humanity, it is also necessarily antisocial.
The creative person does what is neither normal nor expected. Thus the reality of a mastectomy is twice jarring. And when confronted with actual photographs, our inclination is to look away. Small wonder that it becomes complex with human creativity. Sometimes as an escape, as a reward, or as a competitor to be beaten to the finish line.