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
- Announcements
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
- Announcements
- 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
- Perspectives
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
- Announcements
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