Archive: Medical Humanities Initiative

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Announcements

FALL MEDICAL HUMANITIES MIXER

Join us for the annual Fall Medical Humanities Mixer hosted by Georgetown University’s Medical Humanities Program! This event offers students, faculty, and staff an opportunity…

October 20, 2025

Perspectives

Science Means Even More In Its Human Context

I work on the history of infectious disease in Britain and Ireland in the first millennium, CE. The evidence I work with comes from several different disciplines – I draw…

October 20, 2025

Perspectives

Why I Chose Medical Humanitites

My name is Olivia Collins, and I am from Essex, Connecticut. I am a sophomore majoring in Healthcare Management and Policy. History has always been one of my favorite subjects,…

October 13, 2025

Perspectives

Why I Chose Medical Humanities

As a biology student, I was looking for a way to blend my passions for science and healthcare with my love of literature and media analysis. Medical Humanities offers a perfect…

October 13, 2025

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The Art of Care: Georgetown Collaborators Devise a New Play Highlighting Connections Between Theater and Medicine

“We must go beyond the traditional biomedical approach and normalize a bio/psycho/social approach to how we care for populations,” says Professor Christopher…

September 26, 2025

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Scholarship

Medical Humanities Research Fellowship

Are you ready to bring your vision for a medical humanities research project to life? The Georgetown Medical Humanities Initiative is funding undergraduate ($1),…

September 26, 2025

Perspectives

Why Medical Humanities

I am a junior majoring in Computer Science, Ethics, and Society, passionate about responsible AI, policy, and biotech. I chose Medical Humanities to investigate how technological…

September 22, 2025

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Why Medical Humanities

I’m Michael Cormack (CAS’28) from Manhattan Beach, California. I’m on the pre-med track and currently deciding between Biochemistry and Neurobiology. I have always loved…

September 22, 2025

Perspectives

Why Arts And The Humanities

I graduated in 2025 and am now a first-year medical student at Georgetown University Medical School. I was in the College and I majored in Anthropology and minored in STIA with a…

September 22, 2025

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Measure Your Meridians: Mapping Invisible Anatomy in Global Chinese Medicine

Join the GU History Department, Asian Studies Program, and Medical Humanities Initiative for “Measure Your Meridians: Mapping Invisible Anatomy in Global Chinese Medicine”…

September 22, 2025