Archive: Medical Humanities Initiative
47 Articles
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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
- 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
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- Past events
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
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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…
May 10, 2021
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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.…
April 12, 2021
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Georgetown College Writes About the Medical Humanities Initiative’s New Minor
Georgetown College shared the announcement of the launch of the interdisciplinary minor in Medical Humanities, Culture, and Society, which, in Nicoletta Pireddu's words, …
March 22, 2021
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“Medical Humanities Initiative Creates Novel Learning Opportunities with Interdisciplinary Students and Faculty”, The Georgetown University Medical Center Covers the Work of the Medical Humanities Initiative
The Georgetown University Medical Center wrote about the novel learning opportunities that the Georgetown University Medical Humanities Initiative provides for undergraduate and…
January 28, 2021
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“The Role of the Humanities in Medical Studies,” Christopher Swisher Writes about the impact of the Medical Humanities in his Educational Experience
Christopher Swisher (M'22) writes about the impact of the Georgetown Humanities Initiative in his medical.…
December 19, 2020
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“The Social Effects of Medicalizing an Entire Race,” Elisa Reverman Writes on the Georgetown Humanities Initiative
Elisa Revernman, Philosophy PhD student and one of our 2020-2021 Fellowship recipients, writes about her research project for the Georgetown Humanities.…
December 18, 2020