Research & Media
Peer-Reviewed Research, Podcasts, and News Features
by Dr. Lakshmi Krishnan
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The Doctor and the Detective: A Cultural History of Diagnosis (under contract at Johns Hopkins University Press)
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Pandemic Forms. Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences. 2024.
The Case of the Peculiar Story: Medical Investigation and the Detective in Edgar Allan Poe and Marguerite Duras. Literature and Medicine. 2023.
Virtuosic Craft or Clerical Labour: The Rise of the Electronic Health Record and Challenges to Physicians' Professional Identity (1950-2022). BMJ Medical Humanities. 2023.
An Extraordinary Sequel: The “Russian” Influenza and Enduring Sequelae in Victorian Culture. Journal of Victorian Culture. 2022.
Person Under Investigation: Detecting Malingering and a Diagnostics of Suspicion in Fin-de-Siècle Britain. Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics. 2021.
Medical Humanities in a Pandemic: Essential and Critical. Synapsis: A Health Humanities Journal. 2020.
Taking Pandemic Sequelae Seriously: From the Russian Influenza to COVID-19 Long-Haulers. The Lancet. 2020.
Historical Insights on COVID-19, 1918 Influenza, and Racial Disparities: Illuminating a Path Forward. Annals of Internal Medicine. 2020.
Physicians, Oaths, and Vampires. The Lancet. 2019.
Understanding Heartbreak: from Takotsubo to Wuthering Heights. The Lancet. 2018.
Developing an Introductory Radiology Clerkship at Perdana University Graduate School of Medicine in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Health Professions Education. 2017.
Gender-related barriers to and delays in accessing tuberculosis diagnostic and treatment services: a systematic review of qualitative studies. Tuberculosis Research and Treatment. 2014.
Robert Browning and the Intelligent Uses of Anger in The Ring and the Book. Victorian Poetry. 2014.
The Element of Living Storm: Swinburne and the Brontës. Victorian Literature and Culture. 2013.
Editing Swinburne’s Border Ballads. Modern Language Review. 2009
“It Has Devoured My Existence”: The Power of the Will and Illness in The Bride of Lammermoor and Wuthering Heights. Brontë Studies. 2007.
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Guest Editor (with Kari Nixon). Outbreak: Contagion and Culture in the Victorian Era (Roundtable Issue). Journal of Victorian Culture. 2022.
Guest Editor (with Vinayak Jain). Critical Pedagogies in Health Professions Education. AMA Journal of Ethics. 2024.
Media
Podcasts and News Features with Dr. Lakshmi Krishnan
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Interview with Dr Sharon Malone, OB/GYN and Author of Grown Woman Talk
WHUT TV / PBS. 2024.
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Howard, Georgetown secure Mellon Foundation grant to end health disparities in D.C.
Washington Business Journal. 2023
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Georgetown and Howard Awarded $3 Million for Medical Humanities Center
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education. 2023.
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A Doctor's Work
Bedside Rounds Podcast. 2022.
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Are We Doctors or Data Workers?
Nautilus. 2022.
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The Inside Story: Pandemic Year Three
Voice of America. 2022.
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Century of Science: Epidemics have happened before and they’ll happen again. What will we remember?
Science News. 2021.
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Century of Science: Epidemics and their Aftermath
Science News. 2021.
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Stories From A Pandemic
The Library of Congress Magazine. 2021.
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Medical Humanities, Literature, COVID-19
COVID-Calls Podcast. 2021.
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Medical Humanities Initiative Creates Novel Learning Opportunities with Interdisciplinary Students and Faculty
Georgetown University Medical Center News. 2021.
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A Tale of Two Pandemics: A Nonfiction Comic about Historical Racial Health Disparities
The Journalist’s Resource, Harvard Kennedy School's Shorenstein Center and the Carnegie-Knight Initiative. 2020.
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When Racial Justice Meets Academia: Georgetown Professors on the Study of Anti-Racism
The Georgetown Voice. 2020.
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Why African Americans Were More Likely to Die During the 1918 Flu Pandemic
History Channel. 2020.
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Merging Medicine and Literature
Wake Forest Magazine. 2019.