Research & Media

Peer-reviewed research, podcasts, and news features.  

In an era when medical knowledge seems increasingly specialized and technological, I uncover the hidden cultural and historical dimensions of healthcare can contribute to more nuanced public conversations.

Books

The Doctor and the Detective: A Cultural History of Diagnosis (under contract at Johns Hopkins University Press)

Selected Articles

Medical Humanities in a Pandemic: Essential and Critical

Synapsis: A Health Humanities Journal, 2020

Pandemic Forms

Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, 2024

Editing Swinburne’s Border Ballads

Modern Language Review, 2009

Edited Journal Issues

Critical Pedagogies in
Health Professions Education

Guest Editor with Vinayak Jain, AMA Journal of Ethics, 2024.

Outbreak: Contagion and Culture in the Victorian Era (Roundtable Issue)

Guest Editor with Kari Nixon, Journal of Victorian Culture, 2022.

Media

Podcast cover for

A Doctor's Work

Bedside Rounds Podcast. 2022.

A cartoon of a nurse receiving her Covid vaccination, making the famous 'Rosie the Riveter' fist pump.

Stories From A Pandemic

The Library of Congress Magazine, 2021.

A non-fiction comic about historical racial health disparities. This scene introduces three doctors from John Hopkins, Dr. Krishnan, Dr. Ogunwole, and Dr. Cooper who are working together to study racial dynamics during the 1918 flu epidemic.

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.

An image of a smiling Dr. Sharon Malone and Lakshmi Krishnan being interviewed on WHUT TV.

Interview with Dr Sharon Malone, OB/GYN and Author of Grown Woman Talk

WHUT TV / PBS. 2024.

A colorful illustration by James O’Brien featuring multiple women’s faces on a blue background.

Merging Medicine and Literature

Wake Forest Magazine, 2019.

Speaking

  • National Academies of Sciences, Medicine, and Engineering: Public Workshop on Diagnostic Equity

    Public Workshop on Improving Equitable Diagnosis Within the U.S. Healthcare System. NASEM. 2024.

  • Medical Detectives: A History of Diagnosis and the Stories Doctors Tell About Ourselves

    General Medicine Grand Rounds, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. 2023.

  • Of What Use Is History?

    The Brian D. Hodges Symposium, The Wilson Centre, University of Toronto. Keynote Panel. 2023.

  • Keeping Empathy, Connection, and Humanism Alive in Medicine

    I, Too, Am Georgetown Medicine Keynote Speaker. 2023

  • Brain or Appendix? Doctors, Detectives, and Diagnosis

    The Baker Street Irregulars Distinguished Speaker Lecture. 2023.

  • Medical Flâneurs: Cosmopolitan Paris and the American Clinical Imagination

    Longfellow House-Washington Headquarters National Historic Site Fall Lecture Series: Histories of the Body in Art, Science, and Society. 2021.

  • From the Archive to the Clinic: History of Medicine, Health Equity, and the Case Studies of 1918 Influenza and COVID-19

    Sarah Stewart Lecture. Georgetown University School of Medicine. 2021.

  • Telling the Lion’s Tale: Toward Diagnostic Health Equity

    Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine Plenary. 2021.

  • Using Stories and Narrative to Address Bias in Healthcare

    MedStar Health Institute for Quality and Safety. 2021.

  • Medical Humanities for the Clinician

    Grand Rounds. MedStar Washington Hospital Center Department of Medicine. 2021.

  • Revolution is Not a One-Time Event: How History of Medicine and Health Equity Can Remake Medical Education

    Grand Rounds. MedStar Georgetown University Hospital Department of Pediatrics. 2021.

  • Medical Humanities and General Internal Medicine

    Columbia University. Division of General Internal Medicine. 2019.

  • Are Doctors Detectives?: Investigating Diagnosis and the Lessons of the Medical Humanities

    Grand Rounds. Georgetown University Department of Medicine. 2019.

  • Twice-Told Tales: Doctors, Detectives, and Diagnosis

    Wake Forest University Humanities Institute. 2019.

  • On the Medical Humanities in Internal Medicine

    Northwestern University School of Medicine. 2019.

  • Being a Medical Humanities Clinician Researcher in General Internal Medicine

    Yale University School of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine. 2019.

  • Disciplines in Dialogue in the Public Sphere

    Edward Bouchet National Graduate Forum. Howard University. 2019.

  • The Physician as Consulting Detective: From Baker Street to Harlem

    Yale University Program in Medical Humanities, Spiro Lecture Series. 2019.