Archive: Lakshmi Krishnan
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Lakshmi Krishnan and Vinayak Jain Were Part of the 2022 Teaching, Learning & Innovation Summer Institute
Dr. Lakshmi Krishnan and MWHC Internal Medicine Resident Vinayak Jain presented their work on “Critical Pedagogies in Medical Education” at the 2022 Teaching, Learning & Innovation Summer Institute (TLISI).
Category: Past events
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“Outbreak: Contagion and Culture in the Victorian Era: Introduction”
Dr. Lakshmi Krishnan and Dr. Kari Nixon introduce the Journal of Victorian Culture’s Rountable on “Outbreak: Contagion and Culture in the Victorian Era”, which asks how the Victorians approached contagion, examining the ways in which it became such a central preoccupation for a society already fixated upon health and illness and the transactions between life and death.
Category: Scholarship
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“An Extraordinary Sequel: The ‘Russian’ Influenza and Enduring Sequelae in Victorian Culture”
Dr. Lakshmi Krishnan examines the ‘Russian’ influenza pandemic’s enduring cultural and biosocial impact.
Category: Scholarship
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Lakshmi Krishnan Featured in Voice of America’s “The Inside Story: Pandemic: Year Three”
Dr. Lakshmi Krishnan was featured on Voice of America’s “The Inside Story: Pandemic: Year Three”. This program has been covering the latest on the COVID-19 pandemic.
Category: Media
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Longfellow House Washington’s Headquarters National Historic Site Fall Lecture Series: Histories of the Body in Art, Science, and Society Featured Dr. Lakshmi Krishnan’s Work
On November 22, 2021, Dr. Lakshmi Krishnan presented her lecture “Medical Flaneurs: Cosmopolitan Paris and the American Clinical Imagination” in the Longfellow House Washington’s Headquarters National Historic Site Fall Lecture Series: Histories of the Body in Art, Science, and Society.
Category: Past events
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The Georgetown Health Magazine Talks with Lakshmi Krishnan about the New Medical Humanities Minor
The Georgetown Health Magazine talks with Dr. Lakshmi Krishnan about the interdisciplinary minor in Medical Humanities, Culture, and Society, offered for the first time in the Fall of 2021.
Category: Media
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“Epidemics Have Happened Before and They’ll Happen Again. What Will We Remember?”, Science News Explores the Work Co-Authored by Dr. Lakshmi Krishnan
On its coverage of “Health & Medicine”, Science News examines the research article co-authored by Dr. Lakshmi Krishnan —“Historical Insights on Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19), the 1918 Influenza Pandemic, and Racial Disparities: Illuminating a Path Forward”— to understand the legacies of the racial health disparities in the historical arc of the 1918 influenza pandemic in the present, to address the social determinants of health that lead to these disparities.
Category: Media
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Science News Presents the Work Co-Authored by Dr. Lakshmi Krishnan on “Epidemics and their Aftermath”
Science News highlights the contributions of the work co-authored by Dr. Lakshmi Krishnan. This research adds to our understanding of the racial health disparities during the 1918 influenza pandemic and their legacies.
Category: Media
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Dr. Lakshmi Krishnan Was a Speaker at the Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine’s 14th International Diagnostic Error in Medicine Conference
Dr. Lakshmi Krishnan was a speaker at the Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine’s 14th International Diagnostic Error in Medicine Conference. The event took place between October 25 and 27, 2021, with the theme of Reducing Disparities; Improving Diagnosis.
Category: Past events
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“Person Under Investigation: Detecting Malingering and a Diagnostics of Suspicion in Fin-de-Siècle Britain”
Dr. Lakshmi Krishnan examines shifting conceptions of diagnosis & malingering in fin-de-siècle Great Britain by studying two important cases: Physician Cornélius Herz’s ordeal after the collapse of the French Panama Canal Company (1889) & Sherlock Holmes’ “Adventure of the Dying Detective” (1913).
Category: Scholarship