Archive: Scholarship
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The New Clinician-Scholars—Dual Training in Medicine and Humanities Drives Health Research Innovation
Dr. Lakshmi Krishnan, Founding Director of the Medical Humanities Initiative at Georgetown University, co-authored a new JAMA Viewpoint titled “The New Clinician-Scholars…
October 26, 2025
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Medical Humanities Research Fellowship
Are you ready to bring your vision for a medical humanities research project to life? The Georgetown Medical Humanities Initiative is funding undergraduate ($1),…
September 26, 2025
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“David Pickel “Malarial Landscapes in Roman Italy: A View from Poggio Gramignano (Lugnano in Teverina, Umbria)”
Dr. David Pickel explores the entangled relationship between humans, the environment, and malaria, showcasing the interpretative utility of archaeological remains for studying…
April 18, 2023
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Art, Humor, and Gender in the Second World War Plastic Surgery Ward
Dr. Christine Slobogin (CAS ‘16) is a health humanities scholar who uses art and visual culture as a way to understand ethics, emotion, medicine, and gender. She was an Art…
April 14, 2023
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“Core Faculty Member, Dr. Emily Mendenhall, awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship”
Our very own Dr. Emily Mendenhall has been selected as a 2023 Guggenheim Fellowship recipient for her work in medical anthropology and public.…
April 13, 2023
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Medical Humanities and Global Medieval Studies Workshop: Millennium Epidemics
Join us for the Millennium Epidemics Workshop in…
February 21, 2023
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“Virtuosic Craft or Clerical Labour: the Rise of the Electronic Health Record and Challenges to Physicians’ Professional Identity (1950-2022)”
In this article, Lakshmi Krishnan and Michael Neuss tackle the debate around the electronic health record (EHR), by following key moments in the history of the early computer…
October 7, 2022
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“A Pilot Study to Understand the Role of Medical Humanities in Medical Education”
Clark Pitcher, Arya Prasad, Daniel Marchalik, Hunter Groninger, Lakshmi Krishnan and Michael Pottash study the perception of the students enrolled in the Georgetown University…
September 26, 2022
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“Syndemics and Clinical Science”
Emily Mendenhall and her co-authors discuss the emergence of syndemics, how epidemics interact, and what scientists, clinicians and policymakers can do with this.…
July 21, 2022
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“The 852/3 CE Mount Churchill Eruption: Examining the Potential Climatic and Societal Impacts and the Timing of the Medieval Climate Anomaly in the North Atlantic Region”
Timothy Newfield and his research team use palaeoenvironmental reconstructions, historical records and climate model simulations to assess the potential broader impact of the 852…
June 29, 2022