Archive: Media and Scholarship
259 Articles
- Media
“We Need School-Age Vaccine Mandates to End the COVID Pandemic”, Emily Mendenhall’s Opinion in Scientific American
Although vaccination has been proven crucial for protecting children and families, many parents are choosing not to vaccinate school-aged children. Emily Mendenhall argues that,…
November 24, 2021
- Media
“Academia is More Broken than Ever. To Fix it, We Need More and Stronger Unions”, Maggie Levantovskaya Writes about Unionization Bringing Laura Hartmann-Villalta’s Insights
In her writing about unionization as a solution to academic precarity on Medium, Maggie Levantovskaya brings insights by different scholars who have experienced such precarity,…
November 22, 2021
- Media
“The Limits of Advance Care Planning”, Dr. Michael Pottash’s Perspective on Pallimed
In this piece published on the Pallimed blog, Michael Pottash responds to the case against advance care planning, arguing that a better framework for thinking about these future…
November 22, 2021
- Media
The Hoya Talks with Maggie Little about the “Disability Ethics” Module of Her Biothics Course
The Hoya interviews Maggie Little about the new three-week disability ethics module that she piloted in her Bioethics.…
November 19, 2021
- Media
Lesson of Jan Karski, Play Co-Written by Derek Goldman, Featured in the 10 Books that Define Georgetown University Press List
“Remember This: The Lesson of Jan Karski,” written by Clark Young and Derek Goldman, was featured in the list of 10 books that define Georgetown University.…
November 11, 2021
- Media
- Past events
Aminatta Forna in Conversation with John Freeman
On November 9th, 2021, the Lannan Center presented a reading and talk featuring author Aminatta Forna and editor John Freeman to discuss her recently launched book, The Window…
November 9, 2021
- Media
The Georgetown Health Magazine Talks with Lakshmi Krishnan about the New Medical Humanities Minor
The Georgetown Health Magazine talks with Dr. Lakshmi Krishnan about the interdisciplinary minor in Medical Humanities, Culture, and Society, offered for the first time in the…
November 8, 2021
- Media
“Epidemics Have Happened Before and They’ll Happen Again. What Will We Remember?”, Science News Explores the Work Co-Authored by Dr. Lakshmi Krishnan
On its coverage of "Health & Medicine", Science News examines the research article co-authored by Dr. Lakshmi Krishnan —“Historical Insights on Coronavirus Disease 2019 -…
October 27, 2021
- Media
Science News Presents the Work Co-Authored by Dr. Lakshmi Krishnan on “Epidemics and their Aftermath”
Science News highlights the contributions of the work co-authored by Dr. Lakshmi Krishnan. This research adds to our understanding of the racial health disparities during the…
October 27, 2021
- Scholarship
“Person Under Investigation: Detecting Malingering and a Diagnostics of Suspicion in Fin-de-Siècle Britain”
Dr. Lakshmi Krishnan examines shifting conceptions of diagnosis & malingering in fin-de-siècle Great Britain by studying two important cases: Physician Cornélius Herz’s…
October 19, 2021