Archive: Medical Humanities Initiative
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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 through the covid-19 pandemic has proven to me how important it is to bring a social, cultural, and historical approach to medicine and public health.
Category: Student perspectives
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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 through the covid-19 pandemic has proven to me how important it is to bring a social, cultural, and historical approach to medicine and public health.
Category: Student perspectives
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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 through the covid-19 pandemic has proven to me how important it is to bring a social, cultural, and historical approach to medicine and public health.
Category: Student perspectives
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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 through the covid-19 pandemic has proven to me how important it is to bring a social, cultural, and historical approach to medicine and public health.
Category: Student perspectives
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The Medical Humanities Initiative has been the highlight of my academic experience 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 living through the covid-19 pandemic has proven to me how important it is to bring a social, cultural, and historical approach to medicine and public health.
Category: Student perspectives
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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 infection, disease, and the hard sciences. The medical humanities reveal not only that these interests go hand in hand, but that they are actually indispensable to one another.
Category: Student perspectives
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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 period (7th and 8th centuries), in this talk Professor Yan Liu (SUNY-Buffalo) illustrates how the court regulated the use of poisons and commissioned new medical treatises to achieve effective governance.
Category: Past events
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An Evening with Acclaimed Writer Sofi Oksanen
Virtual reading and conversation with one of the most awarded literary authors in Scandinavia, Finnish-Estonian novelist and playwright , Sofi Oksanen. Moderated by Lannan Center Director, Aminatta Forna.
Categories: Media, Past events
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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 crossroads of comparative literature, medical humanities, and racial justice. The respondent was Prof. Lakshmi Krishnan, Director of the Georgetown Medical Humanities Initiative.
Category: Past events
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Decarcerating Disability: Deinstitutionalization & Prison Abolition with Dr. Liat Ben-Moshe
Discussion with Dr. Liat Ben-Moshe, of her recently published book, Decarcerating Disability: Deinstitutionalization and Prison Abolition.
Category: Past events