Archive: Medical Humanities Initiative

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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

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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

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“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

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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

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