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New Study Supports the Value of Medical Humanities in Illuminating the Root Causes of Health Care Disparities in Washington, D.C.
A new study analyzing dozens of published papers over five decades focusing on health care disparities in Washington, D.C., found that those that employed medical humanities approaches identified crucial barriers and opportunities for intervention that quantitative studies often miss.
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Undergraduates and Medical Students Learn Cura Personalis Through the Medical Humanities
For the past three years, Georgetown undergraduates and medical students have immersed themselves in the emerging interdisciplinary field of medical humanities, which seeks to expand the hard sciences approach to the study of science and medicine to include social and historical context.
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Howard and Georgetown Universities To Launch Joint Medical Humanities Center Funded by Mellon Foundation Grant
WASHINGTON (January 19, 2023) — The Mellon Foundation has awarded a 3.5 year, $3 million grant to support a collaboration between Georgetown University and Howard University in the establishment of a center for medical humanities. The Georgetown-Howard Center for Medical Humanities and Health Justice will focus on reducing health disparities in Washington through leveraging methods […]
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Medical Humanities Minor Launched by University
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Medical Humanities Initiative Creates Novel Learning Opportunities with Interdisciplinary Students and Faculty
(January 28, 2021) — For years to come, the social, cultural and historical contexts of the coronavirus pandemic will be subjects of intense interest and study. In the fall semester of 2020, several Georgetown students started to dive into these areas through the recently established Georgetown Medical Humanities Initiative. As the founding director of this […]
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