Archive: Lakshmi Krishnan
47 Articles
- Scholarship
“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…
October 19, 2021
- Past events
Healing with Poisons: The Circulation of Medical Knowledge in Medieval China – Asia in Depth Seminar
During China’s formative era of pharmacy, poisons were strategically deployed as healing agents to cure everything from chills to pains to epidemics. Focusing on the early Tang…
October 7, 2021
- Media
Dr. Lakshmi Krishnan Featured in the The Library of Congress Magazine’s “Stories From A Pandemic”
The September-October 2021 issue of The Library of Congress Magazine presents “Stories From A Pandemic”, a first-of-its-kind collection of audio diaries newly acquired by the…
September 10, 2021
- Past events
Dr. Lakshmi Krishnan Featured as One of the Workshop Speakers at the 2021 Lisa J. Raines Grand Challenge Fellowship
The 2021 Lisa J. Raines Grand Challenge Fellowship funded undergraduate students to conduct independent summer research projects engaging with the grand challenge of “Health…
August 13, 2021
- Media
- Past events
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…
August 12, 2021
- Past events
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,…
May 12, 2021
- Past events
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…
May 10, 2021
- Media
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, …
March 22, 2021
- Past events
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…
February 24, 2021
- Past events
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…
February 13, 2021