Archive: Emily Mendenhall
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“Savoring Care Flourishing with Diabetes Across Cultures” by Professor Emily Mendenhall and Professor Jessica Hardin
Savoring Care challenges conventional narratives about living with type 2 diabetes. A chronic condition defined by insulin resistance and radical transitions in lifestyle, type 2…
January 14, 2026
- Past events
On Call: A Conversation With Dr. Anthony Fauci
On November 6, 2025 in Gaston Hall, the Medical Humanities Initiative hosted a fireside chat with Dr. Anthony Fauci, exploring his latest book On Call and reflecting on the…
November 16, 2025
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Work and Life in Crisis: The Medical Humanities Responds to COVID-19
Hosted by Medical Humanities Visiting Scholar Cora Salkovskis, this medical humanities colloquium featured scholarship and discussions from Johns Hopkins University historian of…
March 14, 2024
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Conversation in Medical Humanities with Professor Langley and Professor Mendenhall
On November 28th, the first in a series of Conversations in Medical Humanities events was held. The Conversations in Medical Humanities series will be a sequence of events where…
November 28, 2023
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- Scholarship
“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
- 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.…
July 21, 2022
- Media
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Emily Mendenhall Presents Her Book Unmasked in the New Books in Science, Technology, and Society podcast
Emily Mendenhall tells host Austin Clyde the story of her most recent book, Unmasked: COVID, Community and the Case of Okoboji from the New Books in Science, Technology, and…
May 23, 2022
- Media
Aaron Gronstal Creates Comic Illustrations to Translate Emily Mendenhall’s Unmasked into Visual Form
Aaron Gronstal, an astrobiologist and visual artist from Okoboji, uses comic illustrations to translate Emily Mendenhall's Unmasked: COVID, Community, and the Case of Okoboji…
May 3, 2022
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Emily Mendenhall Presented Her Latest Book at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Emily Mendenhall spoke about newest book, Unmasked: COVID, Community, and the Case of Okoboji at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public.…
April 19, 2022
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Social Science & Medicine – Mental Health Video Podcast: Emily Mendenhall on Flourishing and Health in Critical Perspective
Emily Mendenhall and Sarah S. Willen talk about “Flourishing and Health in Critical Perspective: An Invitation to Interdisciplinary Dialogue,” the first series of the Social…
April 13, 2022