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  1. About
  2. People
    1. Core Faculty
      1. Director of Undergraduate Research and Scholarship: Timothy Newfield, Ph.D.
      2. Founding Director: Lakshmi Krishnan, MD, Ph.D.
    2. Affiliate Faculty
    3. Steering Committee
    4. Visiting Scholars
    5. Staff
  3. Education
    1. The Minor
    2. Courses
    3. Medical Humanities Journeys Core Curriculum
    4. Student Class Projects
      1. 2024-2025 Senior Capstone Projects
      2. 2023-2024 Senior Capstone Projects
      3. View Introduction to Medical Humanities Student Projects (Fall 2023)
      4. Introduction to Medical Humanities Student Unessay Projects (Fall 2021)
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“Medical Humanities in a Pandemic: Essential and Critical”

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Visual representation of a human figure made up of viruses. There are two text boxes. Top: Sickness in the room was oppressive. Bottom: I found myself thinking about miasma theory
Credit: Simone Hasselmo

In this article, Dr. Lakshmi Krishnan and Dr. Anna Reisman account for the invaluable insights that the humanities offer the biomedical sciences during the COVID-19 pandemic, as a means of examining themselves, their profession, and the broader social context.

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