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Announcements, Scholarship
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.
October 7, 2022
Announcements, Scholarship
“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.
September 26, 2022
Scholarship
“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.
July 21, 2022
2021
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Scholarship
“Balancing Act: Precision Medicine and National Security”
James Giordano and Diane DiEuliis describe current scientific and technological developments in precision medicine. They assess the risks of using these tools and capabilities to exert disruptive influence upon human health, economics, social structure, military capabilities and global dimensions of power.
December 30, 2021
Scholarship
Maggie Little and her co-authors describe the process, ethical foundations, recommendations and applications of guidance for advancing responsible inclusion of pregnant people in HIV/co-infections research.
December 15, 2021
Scholarship
“Syndemic Theory, Methods, and Data”
Emily Mendenhall, Timothy Newfield and Alexander Tsai introduce an Special Issue of Social Science & Medicine, focused on Rethinking Syndemics through time, space, and method.
December 14, 2021
2020
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Scholarship
James Giordano and his co-authors present their research on mental health clinicians’ and researchers’ perceptions and concerns regarding the use of neuromodulatory techniques in Mexico, as compared to those reported in the international literature, and examine if there are also specific local neuroethical, legal, socio-cultural issues relevant to such distinctions or similarities.
December 10, 2020
Scholarship
“Movement for Multiple Sclerosis: A Multi-Site Partnership for Practice and Research”
Julia Langley and other researchers introduce three dance programs developed for people with multiple sclerosis (MS). Recommendations are offered to guide safe and evidence-based dance for MS practices.
November 25, 2020
Scholarship
“Medical Humanities in a Pandemic: Essential and Critical”
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.
November 9, 2020
2019
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Scholarship
Working towards the goal of fostering effective biosecurity strategies to include emerging fields like neuroscience and neurotechnology (neuroS/T), James Giordano and Joseph DeFranco identify two general approaches that can be used to monitor brain science research, to facilitate the detection of dual and direct-use biological threats as they relate to advancements in brain sciences.
December 16, 2019
Scholarship
“The Justinianic Plague: An Inconsequential Pandemic?”
Timothy Newfield and his co-authors challenge current consensus about the number of deaths and significance of the Justinianic Plague.
December 2, 2019
Scholarship
“Progress and nostalgia in A Visit from the Goon Squad”
Dr. Daniel Marchalik and Ann Jurecic write about the tension between yearning for the future and nostalgia for the past in Jennifer Egan’s A Visit from the Goon Squad, and how that tension plays out in medicine.
November 16, 2019
2018
News
Scholarship
The Criminal Crowd and Other Writings on Mass Society
This book, with an introduction and notes by Nicoletta Pireddu, who edited and co-translated it, is the first English collection of writings by Italian jurist, sociologist, cultural and literary critic Scipio Sighele.
November 8, 2018
Scholarship
“When We Document End-of-Life Care, Words Still Matter”
Dr. Hunter Groninger and Anne M. Kelemen highlight the findings of the study “Language Used by Health Care Professionals to Describe Dying at an Acute Care Hospital”, and how providers’ discomfort in employing clear, direct terms when talking about dying can have unintended consequences, such as miscommunication, and missed or delayed opportunities to engage in the grieving process.
September 21, 2018
Scholarship
“Looking Ahead: The Importance of Views, Values, and Voices in Neuroethics—Now”
In light of the developments the body-to-head transplant (BHT) in China, which have attracted considerable attention and criticism, Dr. James Giordano reflects about the evermore international enterprise of brain science, and the need for neuroethical discourse to include and appreciate multicultural views, values, and voices.
September 10, 2018
2017
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Scholarship
Julia Langley and her co-authors study the artist-patient encounter and how artists can function in the palliative interdisciplinary model of care.
December 22, 2017
Scholarship
“The Return to Literature—Making Doctors Matter in the New Era of Medicine”
As medicine faces rapid changes in our current era, which include the widespread use of artificial intelligence, it is also expected for the nature of physicians’ jobs to change, as well as medical education. Dr. Marchalik explores the innovative approach of the Literature and Medicine Track of the Georgetown University School of Medicine, and suggests ways in which literature could be used to prepare future doctors for the evolving demands of the medical field.
December 14, 2017
Scholarship
Julia Langley and her co-authors made a pilot intervention seeking to integrate visual intelligence skills into nursing education. The pilot suggests that teaching visual intelligence skills has potential to impact communication and collaboration.
December 7, 2017
2016
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“De-Privatizing Self-Harm: Remembering the Social Self in How to Forget”
Theodora Danylevich reads Malu De Martino’s 2010 film Como Esqueçer (How to Forget) as a case study in self-harm as a mode of expression and self-inquiry. The author argues that How to Forget charts a “crip” epistemology of self-harm and theorizes a “social self.” That is to say, the film models an orientation towards self-harm that offers a coalitional and social therapeutic understanding.
July 28, 2016
Scholarship
“Artists’ Perspectives on Encounters with Palliative Inpatients, a Qualitative Study”
The team of researchers that includes Julia Langley sought to identify overarching themes, outcomes and impacts of the Arts and Humanities Program at Georgetown University on artists and patients from the palliative medicine service.
February 1, 2016
Scholarship
“Beyond Thinking: Black Flesh as Meat Patties and The End of Eating Everything”
Theodora Danylevich explores flesh as an inner register of violence against African-American and diasporic black subjects.
January 1, 2016
2015
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Scholarship
The Works of Claudio Magris: Temporary Homes, Mobile Identities, European Borders
This book, authored by Nicoletta Pireddu, is the first comprehensive critical analysis for an English-speaking audience of the corpus of Claudio Magris.
January 6, 2015