Archive: Scholarship
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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 disease transmission in antiquity. His presentation argues for the need to ground larger narratives in local histories.
Category: Scholarship
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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 History and English doubl
Categories: Past events, Scholarship
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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 health.
Category: Scholarship
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Medical Humanities and Global Medieval Studies Workshop: Millennium Epidemics
Join us for the Millennium Epidemics Workshop in April
Categories: Announcements, Scholarship
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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-based patient record from the late 1950s to the EHR of the present day.
Category: Scholarship
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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 Medical Humanities Initiative of the benefits of a medical humanities curriculum.
Category: Scholarship
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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 information.
Category: Scholarship
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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 852/3 CE eruption of Mount Churchill, Alaska, was one of the largest first-millennium volcanic events.
Category: Scholarship
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“Healing on Credit: Medical Bills and the Politics of Medicine in Eighteenth-Century Pondichéry”
This article presents part of the research Jakob Burnham has been conducting in his 2021-2022 Medical Humanities Research Fellowship, which explores the centrality of medical professionals to France’s colonial empire. It focuses on what medical bills can tell us about the history of French colonialism in India.
Category: Scholarship
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Sea and Land: An Environmental History of the Caribbean
This book, co-authored by John McNeill, Philip J. Morgan, Matthew Mulcahy, and Stuart B. Schwartz, delves into the environment and ecology of the Caribbean, exploring issues concerning natural resources, conservation, epidemiology, and climate.
Category: Scholarship