Archive: Lakshmi Krishnan
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“Virtuosic Craft or Clerical Labour: the Rise of the Electronic Health Record and Challenges to Physicians’ Professional Identity (1950-2022)”
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.
Category: Scholarship
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“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.
Category: Scholarship
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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