Archive: Medical Humanities Initiative

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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

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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

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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…

October 25, 2021

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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…

October 25, 2021

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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…

October 25, 2021

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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

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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…

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

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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…

September 21, 2021