Archive: Scholarship 2022

15 Articles

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“Virtuosic Craft or Clerical Labour: the Rise of the Electronic Health Record and Challenges to Physicians’ Professional Identity (1950-2022)”

In this article, Lakshmi Krishnan and Michael Neuss tackle the debate around the electronic health record (EHR), by following key moments in the history of the early computer…

October 7, 2022

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“A Pilot Study to Understand the Role of Medical Humanities in Medical Education”

Clark Pitcher, Arya Prasad, Daniel Marchalik, Hunter Groninger, Lakshmi Krishnan and Michael Pottash study the perception of the students enrolled in the Georgetown University…

September 26, 2022

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“Syndemics and Clinical Science”

Emily Mendenhall and her co-authors discuss the emergence of syndemics, how epidemics interact, and what scientists, clinicians and policymakers can do with this.…

July 21, 2022

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“The 852/3 CE Mount Churchill Eruption: Examining the Potential Climatic and Societal Impacts and the Timing of the Medieval Climate Anomaly in the North Atlantic Region”

Timothy Newfield and his research team use palaeoenvironmental reconstructions, historical records and climate model simulations to assess the potential broader impact of the 852…

June 29, 2022

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“Healing on Credit: Medical Bills and the Politics of Medicine in Eighteenth-Century Pondichéry”

This article presents part of the research Jakob Burnham has been conducting in his 2021-2022 Medical Humanities Research Fellowship, which explores the centrality of medical…

May 17, 2022

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Sea and Land: An Environmental History of the Caribbean

This book, co-authored by John McNeill, Philip J. Morgan, Matthew Mulcahy, and Stuart B. Schwartz, delves into the environment and ecology of the Caribbean, exploring issues…

May 13, 2022

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“Vaccination Disagreement Between Parents”

Dr. James Giordano addresses the ethical dilemma faced by physicians when, for the decision of vaccinating children, find parents with opposite.…

May 1, 2022

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“All Ethics Is Global: New Neuroethics in a Multipolar and Multicultural World”

Dr. James Giordano and Dr. John R. Shook explore the issues that the globalization process poses on.…

April 27, 2022

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“Outbreak: Contagion and Culture in the Victorian Era: Introduction”

Dr. Lakshmi Krishnan and Dr. Kari Nixon introduce the Journal of Victorian Culture's Rountable on "Outbreak: Contagion and Culture in the Victorian Era", which asks how the…

April 26, 2022

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“An Extraordinary Sequel: The ‘Russian’ Influenza and Enduring Sequelae in Victorian Culture”

Dr. Lakshmi Krishnan examines the ‘Russian’ influenza pandemic’s enduring cultural and biosocial.…

April 5, 2022