Archive: Medical Humanities Initiative
43 Articles
- Perspectives
The medical humanities asks me to engage with what it means to be human; it asks me to engage with humanity
The medical humanities program has been the highlight of my academic experience at Georgetown thus far. . . . Studying medical humanities has become imperative to me since living…
November 1, 2023
- Perspectives
The medical humanities allows me to explore interests not limited to the traditional medical world
The medical humanities program has been the highlight of my academic experience at Georgetown thus far. . . . Studying medical humanities has become imperative to me since living…
November 1, 2023
- Announcements
- Media
Ella Castanier Received a Penner Research Award
Ella Castanier (COL’24) received a Penner Family Experiences Award, which provides undergraduate students experiential learning.…
October 6, 2022
- Announcements
- Scholarship
“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…
September 26, 2022
- Past events
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 &…
May 24, 2022
- Scholarship
“Healing on Credit: Medical Bills and the Politics of Medicine in Eighteenth-Century Pondichéry”
This article presents part of the research Jakob Burnham has been conducting in his 2021-2022 Medical Humanities Research Fellowship, which explores the centrality of medical…
May 17, 2022
- Announcements
Anjali Britto’s “What the Lockdown Gave Me” on Display at the Gelardin Center Exhibit Area
“What the Lockdown Gave Me”, the mixed media project that Anjali Britto (SFS'22) developed as her Medical Humanities 2020-2021 Research Project, under the guidance of Toni…
May 6, 2022
- Media
Ella Castanier Awarded a Kalorama Fellowship
Ella Castanier (COL’24) was awarded one of the 2022 Kalorama Summer Research Fellowships, to support her history of medicine project titled, "Checking the Monster Scourge":…
April 21, 2022
- Past events
The Georgetown Medical Humanities Initiative Co-Sponsored the 2022 Health Humanities Conference
The Georgetown Medical Humanities Initiative was one of the sponsors of the 2022 Health Humanities Conference, which took place on March 25, 26 and 27, 2022, and was co-hosted by…
March 28, 2022
- Media
“Helen Dominic Is Examining the Power that Listening Can Have on Healing,” Georgetown College Talks about the Research of our 2022-23 Fellow
Georgetown College writes about Helen Dominic, and her research in improvements in the ways we handle immigrant.…
March 16, 2022