Arthur Garson, Jr.

Arthur Garson, Jr.

Arthur “Tim” Garson, Jr. is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine. He is the former provost of the University of Virginia and dean of the UVA School of Medicine.  He has been Dean of Academic Operations at Baylor College of Medicine and Vice President of Texas Children’s Hospital. He currently is an affiliated faculty member of the Hobby School of Public Affairs and Clinical Professor of Population Health in the College of Medicine at University of Houston.  He has taught or lectured on all seven continents and is the author of 595 publications, including 10 books. He lives in Houston.

Books by Arthur Garson, Jr.

Five Thousand Years of Controversies

By Arthur Garson, Jr.

Five Thousand Years of Controversies

A Family's Journey Through World History

Five Thousand Years of Controversies is Arthur Garson, Jr.’s history of humanity’s great arguments, staged as fifty family dinners across five millennia. The same family appears at every table — a mother, a twelve-year-old daughter after the big picture, a fifteen-year-old son asking the hard questions — and two brothers debate the era’s controversy after the plates are cleared.