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Professor Timothy Newfield Named Director of Undergraduate Research and Scholarship
Meet our new Director of Undergraduate Research and Scholarship, Professor Timothy Newfield! Dr. Newfield is a historical epidemiologist, environmental historian, and assistant professor in the…
December 20, 2023
Announcements, Past events
A Reading and Conversation with V.V. Ganeshananthan, Author of Brotherless Night
On November 16, the Medical Humanities Initiative held an event with V.V. Ganeshananthan, author of Brotherless Night, a novel that follows the perspective of a young girl who wants to…
November 16, 2023
Past events
On November 1st, Dr. Lloyd Meadhbh Houston gave a talk on The North of Ireland, Modernism, and the Medicalization of Sex with the Global Irish Studies Initiative. This seminar explores the ways in…
November 1, 2023
2021
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Elisa Reverman Illustrates the Bombshelltoe Policy x Arts Collective’s Lifelines Project
Elisa Revernman, Philosophy PhD student and one of our 2020-2021 Fellowships recipients, illustrated the Bombshelltoe Policy x Arts Collective’s Lifelines Project.
December 30, 2021
Media
The Walsh School of Foreign Service presents Emily Mendenhall’s upcoming book, “Unmasked: COVID, Community and the Case of Okoboji”. “Unmasked” unpacks the “everyday disagreements” about COVID-19 Mendenhall observed firsthand in her hometown during that first pandemic summer. The book is also an examination of the performance of politics as social and cultural practice.
December 8, 2021
Media
Kayla Zamanian (SFS’23), co-authors piece about how conscientious objection has been increasingly used to hinder abortion rights on OpenGlobalRights.
December 6, 2021
2020
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Media, Past events
Emily Mendenhall discusses with host Dr. Carmen Logie the concept of syndemic, based on her global research on diabetes, HIV, violence, depression and trauma.
December 23, 2020
Media
Christopher Swisher (M’22) writes about the impact of the Georgetown Humanities Initiative in his medical studies.
December 19, 2020
Media
Daniel Marchalik Writes on How Gratitude Can Help to Reduce Burnout in Hospital Caregivers
In this entry for the MedStar Health Blog, Dr. Daniel Marchalik writes about the prevalence of burnout amongst healthcare professionals, and how the recent public health crisis has further expanded that issue, and talks about how patients and loved ones of those who are sick can help reduce caregiver burnout.
December 18, 2020
2019
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The Hoya Covers the Development of the Medical Humanities Major
The Hoya introduces the future Medical Humanities major, expected to possibly launch in coming years, mentioning the Spring 2020 courses, and Dr. Lakshmi Krishnan and Dr. Daniel Marchalik’s vision for the Medical Humanities at Georgetown University.
November 8, 2019
Media
The Hoya explores the barriers that exist for students with invisible disabilities in Georgetown, presenting insights from students from the Georgetown Disability Alliance and professors from the Disability Studies Program, including Sylvia Önder, on how to address them.
October 25, 2019
Media
On its covering of the of the development of the Georgetown Disability Alliance, the student organization founded to draw attention to issues affecting students with disabilities on campus, The Hoya talked with Sylvia Önder about the work that Georgetown and the Disabilities Studies Program to bring more awareness and address the needs of members of the Georgetown community living with disabilities.
September 19, 2019
2018
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In the Ethicslab podcast, Dr. Carol Taylor, Dr. Michael Pottash, Dr. Laura Guidry-Grimes and Dr. Sarah Kleinfeld reflect on the stories of patients with psychiatric disability, who face end-of-life situations after prolonged non-adherence to a medical treatment plan. The guests offer their ethical reflections on the challenges, naming the components of complexity, and what is important for ethics committee members to pay attention to in patient stories like these.
December 27, 2018
Media
“Advance Directive-ish”, Dr. Michael Pottash Writes on the Better Healthcare Blog
Dr. Michael Pottash writes about problems with advance directives, and provides specific guidelines for doctors, patients and families to take into account, for them to be useful.
October 27, 2018
Media, Past events
Global Podcast: The Laboratory for Global Performance and Politics
In the Global Podcast, the Global Communications Group explores the relationship between the arts and international relations through the work of The Laboratory for Global Performance and Politics (The Lab).
September 4, 2018
2017
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Natascha de Vasconcellos Otoya Interviewed Professor John McNeill
Natascha De Vasconcellos Otoya, History PhD student and one of our 2021-2022 Research Fellowships recipients, interviewed Professor John McNeill about his work on global environmental history, the trajectory of the field, and the practical challenges of writing history on a global scale.
November 29, 2017
Media
“Selective Empathy: Stories and the Power of Narrative”, Aminatta Forna on World Literature Today
Aminatta Forna reflects on the power of storytelling, and how it both allows us to understand the worlds of other people, while also reflecting “entire range of views, assumptions, readings and misreadings” about those viewed as “other”.
November 6, 2017
Media
Drawing from his trajectory studying both medicine and literature, Dr. Daniel Marchalik reflects about the value of applying literature to the medical field in this post on the MedStar Health Blog.
September 18, 2017
2016
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Media
In this piece published on The Washington Post, Dr. Daniel Marchalik writes about how Paul Kalanithi’s memoir, “When Breath Becomes Air”, confronted him and his friends from medical school with the fear of their own death.
August 15, 2016
Media
Dr. Daniel Marchalik addresses the alarming high rates of transgender individuals who have attempted suicide.
May 19, 2016
Media
Dr. Daniel Marchalik explains why the mandate requiring that all electronic health records include specific fields about gender identity and sexual orientation can help healthcare professionals better tailor medical care to their individual risk factors.
February 29, 2016
2015
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Media, Past events
Ottoman History Podcast: Health and Home in a Turkish Village with Sylvia Wing Önder
Sylvia Önder talks with Chris Gratien and Seçil Yılmaz about her monograph “We Have No Microbes Here”, looking at continuities in the centrality of households and women in making decisions about medical care within a Black Sea village.
November 16, 2015