Archive: Medical Humanities Initiative
34 Articles
- 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
- Media
The Hoya Talks with Maggie Little about the “Disability Ethics” Module of Her Biothics Course
The Hoya interviews Maggie Little about the new three-week disability ethics module that she piloted in her Bioethics.…
November 19, 2021
- Media
The Georgetown Health Magazine Talks with Lakshmi Krishnan about the New Medical Humanities Minor
The Georgetown Health Magazine talks with Dr. Lakshmi Krishnan about the interdisciplinary minor in Medical Humanities, Culture, and Society, offered for the first time in the…
November 8, 2021
- Perspectives
The medical humanities transformed my perspective on medicine
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…
October 25, 2021
- Perspectives
The medical humanities shape us, inform how we practice medicine and how we approach our patients
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…
October 25, 2021
- Perspectives
The medical humanities tethers me to the reasons why I chose medicine as a career
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…
October 25, 2021
- Perspectives
Intro to Medical Humanities made me feel inspired and reinvigorated
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…
October 25, 2021
- Perspectives
The Medical Humanities Initiative has become my intellectual home during my time at Georgetown
The Medical Humanities Initiative has been the highlight of my academic experience at Georgetown thus far. . . . Studying medical humanities has become imperative to me since…
October 14, 2021
- Perspectives
The medical humanities reveal not only that medicine and the humanities go hand in hand, but that they are actually indispensable to one another
I wish I had found this field sooner. For the longest time, I felt pressured to choose between my gravitation towards history, literature, and philosophy and my curiosity about…
October 14, 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