Archive: Media and Scholarship
241 Articles
- Media
“The Arts Through the Lens of Health Care at Georgetown Lombardi”, Lombardi Stories Features Julia Langley
This Lombardi Story talks about how the Arts and Humanities Program, directed by Julia Langley, has impacted the care provided to the patients of the MedStar Georgetown…
August 16, 2019
- Scholarship
“Preparing for Emerging Infections Means Expecting New Syndemics”
Emily Mendenhall and Colin J. Carlson explain the importance of syndemic thinking in complicating our understanding of epidemics like the Zika virus outbreak in Latin America and…
July 27, 2019
- Media
Emily Mendenhall on Why We Need to Rethink Diabetes
Emily Mendenhall challenges the idea that diabetes is a “lifestyle disease”, which views individuals as solely responsible for diabetes. Mendenhall argues that diabetes is a…
July 18, 2019
- Media
Dr. Christopher King Appointed to Serve on the DC Commission on Health Equity
On July 9, 2019, the DC Council voted to approve the appointment of Dr. Christopher King to serve on the DC Commission on Health.…
July 16, 2019
- Scholarship
Rethinking Diabetes
In Rethinking Diabetes, Emily Mendenhall investigates how global and local factors transform how diabetes is perceived, experienced, and embodied from place to.…
July 15, 2019
- Scholarship
“Rapid Range Shifts in African Anopheles Mosquitoes Over the Last Century”
The team of researchers that includes Emily Mendenhall and Timothy Newfield uses historical data to trace range shifts in Anopheles mosquitoes, which are the vector of malaria…
June 19, 2019
- Media
The Georgetown University Medical Center Writes About the Georgetown Lombardi’s Poetry Café
The Georgetown University Medical Center describes the fourth annual Poetry Café that took place at the MedStar Georgetown University Hospital on June 6, 2019. This event is…
June 14, 2019
- Scholarship
“Institutional Madness: Shakespeare as Hospital Survival Guide”
Dr. Daniel Marchalik and Arthur Frank look at how Shakespeare's Measure for Measure might offer comfort and companionship for patients facing the institutional madness of…
May 25, 2019
- Scholarship
“Women’s Views about Contraception Requirements for Biomedical Research Participation”
Maggie Little and her co-authors inquire on the views of women in the U.S. and in Malawi around the requirement of contraception among reproductive aged women in biomedical…
May 8, 2019
- Media
“Comfort Care, Whatever Does That Mean?”, Dr. Michael Pottash’s Article Review on Pallimed
Dr. Michael Pottash argues that any term to describe dying care will always be problematic, and, thus, we should get rid of it.…
May 4, 2019