Archive: Students
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Elisa Reverman Illustrates the Bombshelltoe Policy x Arts Collective’s Lifelines Project
Elisa Revernman, Philosophy PhD student and one of our 2020-2021 Fellowships recipients, illustrated the Bombshelltoe Policy x Arts Collective’s Lifelines Project.
Category: Media
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“New Uses of Conscience-Based Claims Hinder Progress on Abortion Rights,” Kayla Zamanian and Andrés Constantin Write on OpenGlobalRights
Kayla Zamanian (SFS’23), co-authors piece about how conscientious objection has been increasingly used to hinder abortion rights on OpenGlobalRights.
Category: Media
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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: Trainee 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: Trainee 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: Trainee 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: Trainee Perspectives
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I believe the medical humanities are not solely an academic discipline, but a mechanism for achieving health justice
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: 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: Trainee Perspectives
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“The Importance of Public-Private Partnerships and Preparing for the Next Pandemic,” Kayla Zamanian Writes about Natasha Bilimoria’s Contributions to the Conversations in Global Health Class
Kayla Zamanian (SFS’23) writes about the role of public-private partnerships and the importance of health system strengthening as a way of preparing for future pandemics, based on “The Future of Global Public Health: A Conversation with Natasha Bilimoria”.
Category: Media
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“Towards a Rigorous Understanding of Societal Responses to Climate Change”
The team of researchers that includes Timothy Newfield and Jakob Burnham proposes an interdisciplinary framework for uncovering climate–society interactions that emphasizes the mechanics by which climate change has influenced human history, and the uncertainties of discerning that influence across spatiotemporal scales.
Category: Scholarship