Important Work of Our Fellows
The Out Fellows are engaged in organizing events that promote mental and physical well-being, as well as community building. One such...
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MHHJ featured in Georgetown Health Magazine
Stories about birth are as old as humanity itself. They are universal, crossing every culture as they mark the breathtaking beginnings of...
Exciting Highlights from the MHRI Research Summit in Paris!
Our co-executive director, Lakshmi Krishnan, attended Rice University’s Medical Humanities Research Institute summit at the Rice Global...
Hot Off the Press: Our Co-Executive Director's Latest Paper, Pandemic Form!
Abstract Narrative structures, though invisible to the naked eye, guide our understanding of pandemics. Like curves and graphs, we can...
Georgetown, Howard Launch Joint Center for Medical Humanities
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, a nonprofit that funds humanities initiatives, awarded Georgetown University and Howard University a $3...
Howard, Georgetown Get $3M Grant for Medical Humanities Center
The Mellon Foundation has awarded a 3.5-year, $3 million grant to support a collaboration between Howard and Georgetown universities to...
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...
IPE Day Returns as In-Person Event; Program to Honor Dean Phylicia Rashad
WASHINGTON – Howard University is announcing the return of the highly anticipated 2024 Interprofessional Education Workshop, or IPE Day,...
April is HU Research Month
Howard University solidifies its position as a top-tier U.S. research institution.
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Purchase Play "Vivian Bearing is a professor of English literature known for her intense knowledge of metaphysical poetry, especially the...
Radium Girls
Purchase Play Book Description "In 1926, radium was a miracle cure, Madame Curie an international celebrity, and luminous watches the...
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat: And Other Clinical Tales
Purchase Book Book Description "In Dr. Sacks’s splendid and sympathetic telling, his patients are deeply human and his tales are studies...
Brotherless Night: A Novel
Purchase Book Book Description "Jaffna, 1981. Sixteen-year-old Sashi wants to become a doctor. But over the next decade, a vicious civil...
The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories
Purchase Book Book Description "Here are some of Tolstoy's extraordinary short stories, from "The Death of Ivan Ilyich." in a masterly...
Illness as Metaphor by Susan Sontag
Purchase Book Book Description "Susan Sontag's celebrated essays on cancer and AIDS now available in one volume. In 1978, Sontag wrote...
Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee
Purchase Book Book Description "Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and a documentary from Ken Burns on PBS, this New York Times bestseller is...
The Expressiveness of the Body and the Divergence of Greek and Chinese Medicine
Purchase Book Book Description "The true structure and workings of the human body are, we casually assume, everywhere the same, a...
Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-first Century
Purchase Book Book Description "An incisive, groundbreaking book that examines how a biological concept of race is a myth that promotes...
How Cancer Crossed the Color Line
Purchase Book Book Description "In the course of the 20th century, cancer went from being perceived as a white woman's nemesis to a...
MHHJ in the News: The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, Howard and Georgetown Universities Create the Center for Medical Humanities and Health Justice
Howard and Georgetown Universities Create the Center for Medical Humanities and Health Justice Historically Black Howard University and...
MHHJ in the News: The Hoya, Partnership expands medical humanities and health justice work
Partnership expands medical humanities and health justice work Karen Teber Date Published: June 20, 2023 The Georgetown-Howard Center for...
Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present by Harriet A. Washington
Purchase Book Book Description "From the era of slavery to the present day, starting with the earliest encounters between Black Americans...
MHHJ in the News: The Dig
Georgetown-Howard Center for Medical Humanities and Health Justice Hosts Inaugural Fireside Chat WASHINGTON – On March 26, the...
MHHJ in the News: The Hoya
Georgetown-Howard Center for Medical Humanities and Health Justice Presents First Public Event on Health Memories and Lore The...
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