Tag: Medical Humanities Initiative

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The Medical Humanities Initiative Launches Minor

Georgetown University offers especially fertile terrain for a novel, cross-campus, and critically-minded minor in Medical Humanities, Culture, and Society. This minor brings…

December 14, 2021

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Medical Humanities Initiative and Georgetown Humanities Initiative Receive Two Major Grants for Interdisciplinary Research

The Medical Humanities Initiative and the Humanities Initiative received two major grants for interdisciplinary research--a “Humanities Connections Implementation Grant” from…

July 13, 2021

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The Role of the Humanities in Medical Studies

Much could be said about the daily schedule of a Georgetown medical student: the facts memorized, the exam maneuvers practiced, the notes written. However, in my mind, the day of…

December 18, 2020

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The Social Effects of Medicalizing an Entire Race

Elisa Reverman (PhD Candidate) joins the Medical Humanities Fellowship Program The goal of my project is to look at the social effects of medicalizing an entire race. It’s…

December 18, 2020

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Krishnan leads Medical Humanities Initiative

Lakshmi Krishnan—a historian of medicine, medical humanities scholar, and physician—is the founding Faculty Director of the Georgetown Medical Humanities Initiative, a cross…

December 3, 2020

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Medical Humanities Initiative Partners with Georgetown Humanities to Bring Harriet Washington to the Hilltop

On February 10, the Medical Humanities Initiative, in collaboration with the Georgetown Humanities Initiative and Howard University, hosted the lecture “A Distant Mirror:…

February 15, 2020