Archive: Lakshmi Krishnan
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COVIDCalls Podcast, Episode #320: Medical Humanities, Literature, COVID-19 w/Guest Host Jacob-Steere Williams featuring Dr. Lakshmi Krishnan and Dr. Lorenzo Servitje
A daily discussion of the COVID-19 pandemic featuring Dr. Lakshmi Krishnan and Dr. Lorenzo Servitje – hosted by Dr. Scott Gabriel Knowles, a historian of disasters at KAIST in Daejeon, South Korea.
Categories: Media, Past events
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Using the Power of Narratives to Address Bias in Healthcare
The MedStar Health Institute for Quality and Safety hosted “Using the Power of Narratives to Address Bias in Healthcare”. The event featured a panel of MedStar Health physicians, researchers, and medical humanities leaders, including Dr. Lakshmi Krishnan.
Category: Past events
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Small Silences, Confused Chronicities: The Politics of Terminal Illness in Anne Boyer, Audre Lorde and Hervé Guibert
Ayten Tartici (American Council of Learned Societies “Emerging Voices Postdoctoral Fellow”, Georgetown Humanities Initiative) presented her most recent research at the crossroads of comparative literature, medical humanities, and racial justice. The respondent was Prof. Lakshmi Krishnan, Director of the Georgetown Medical Humanities Initiative.
Category: Past events
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Georgetown College Writes About the Medical Humanities Initiative’s New Minor
Georgetown College shared the announcement of the launch of the interdisciplinary minor in Medical Humanities, Culture, and Society, which, in Nicoletta Pireddu’s words, “demonstrates that the rigor of scientific data and the spark of imagination can work together with exciting results”.
Category: Media
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Dr. Lakshmi Krishnan Spoke at the MedStar Washington Hospital Center Department of Medicine Grand Rounds
On February 24, 2021, Dr. Lakshmi Krishnan presented her lecture about “Medical Humanities for the Clinician” at the MedStar Washington Hospital Center Department of Medicine Grand Rounds.
Category: Past events
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The MedStar Washington Hospital Center Department of Pediatrics Grand Rounds Featured Dr. Lakshmi Krishnan’s Presentation
On February, 2021, Dr. Lakshmi Krishnan presented her lecture “Revolution is Not a One-Time Event: How History of Medicine and Health Equity Can Remake Medical Education” at the MedStar Washington Hospital Center Department of Pediatrics Grand Rounds.
Category: Past events
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“Medical Humanities Initiative Creates Novel Learning Opportunities with Interdisciplinary Students and Faculty”, The Georgetown University Medical Center Covers the Work of the Medical Humanities Initiative
The Georgetown University Medical Center wrote about the novel learning opportunities that the Georgetown University Medical Humanities Initiative provides for undergraduate and medical students, by extending classical humanities studies into the realm of illness and disease.
Category: Media
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Lakshmi Krishnan Awarded Research Fellowship from National Endowment for the Humanities
On December 16, 2020, the National Endowment for the Humanities announced its grants to support different humanities projects. It awarded Lakshmi Krishnan a research fellowship to work on her book project, The Doctor and the Detective: A Cultural History of Diagnosis.
Category: Media
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Georgetown Now: A Conversation with Georgetown President John J. DeGioia featuring Dr. Lakshmi Krishnan
Conversation between Georgetown President John J. DeGioia and Dr. Lakshmi Krishnan.
Category: Past events
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The Georgetown Humanities Initiative Writes About Dr. Lakshmi Krishnan’s Leadership of the Medical Humanities Initiative
The Georgetown Humanities Initiative introduced the Medical Humanities Initiative, with a particular focus on Dr. Lakshmi Krishnan’s experience and vision as leader of the initiative.
Category: Media