Lakshmi Krishnan
Biographic Data
| ID | 3981145 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lakshmi Krishnan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lakshmi |
| FAMILY NAME | Krishnan |
| SIGNATURE | KRISHNAN L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Georgetown University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1224-7380 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Crafting the Divine Ship
The Malabar coastline in present-day southwestern India is renowned for its maritime heritage and its indigenous shipbuilding traditions. Much of what is currently known about shipbuilding in this region’s past is garnered from European documents, marine archaeology, and excavations of ancient ports. This article adds to this knowledge by consulting centuries-old performative traditions and folklore. Specifically, we examine the Thottam of Marakk…
Mapping DC health inequities
There are significant health disparities that exist in Washington, DC, especially when considering variables such as race, socioeconomic status, place of residence, and language. This study analyzes and compares the medical humanities literature to scientific literature to identify if the medical humanities can illuminate more of the root causes of health disparities. A systematic search was conducted, identifying a total of 119 articles for anal…
Changing patterns in health-seeking behaviour and prescription practices for treatment of hypertension in nine districts – insights from India Hypertension Control Initiative, 2018-19 and 2023-24
The India Hypertension Control Initiative (IHCI) aimed to strengthen public sector primary care for hypertension treatment and control. Our study describes changes in health-seeking behaviour, prescription practices, and key predictors influencing treatment adoption in the public sector using data from IHCI repeat cross-sectional surveys. We conducted baseline (2018-19) and follow-up (2023-24) surveys in nine districts across five Phase I states …
Critical Pedagogies in Health Professions Education
Whether oppressive structures are legal, financial, or educational, victims of systemic injustice have almost always been those with minoritized identities.Health care-despite clinicians' presumed fiduciary obligations extending to patients and the public via the social contract-is not exempt from these flaws.Racism, policy-and practice-based assaults on reproductive rights, gun violence, disinformation, transphobia, mass incarceration, and clima…
Pandemic Forms
Narrative structures, though invisible to the naked eye, guide our understanding of pandemics. Like curves and graphs, we can plot them, identify their patterns and organizing principles. These structures act upon our understanding of social and biological events just as much as the rhythms of viral replication and mutation. They order not only themselves but also social and health outcomes. This essay uses narrative precision to expand beyond Ch…
The Case of the Peculiar Story
In "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" (1841), Poe invents the detective story in English, introducing his gentleman sleuth Auguste Dupin as he solves the locked-room mystery of two women found brutally murdered in a Paris apartment. In L'Amante Anglaise (1967), Duras revisits the detective form, fictionalizing the true 1949 crime of a woman murdering and dismembering her cousin in Viorne, France. These literary detective stories highlight the powerf…
Virtuosic craft or clerical labour
The electronic health record (EHR) is a focus of contentious debate, having become as essential to contemporary clinical practice as it is polarising. Debates about the EHR raise questions about physicians' professional identity, the nature of clinical work, evolution of the patient/practitioner relationship, and narratives of technological optimism and pessimism. The metaphors by which clinicians stake our identities-are we historians, detective…
An Extraordinary Sequel
In 1895, the crime-writing duo of L. T. Meade and Clifford Halifax, MD, published ‘A Doctor’s Dilemma’ in The Strand Magazine. In it, the young physician Arthur Feveral describes a recent influenza outbreak which has left an ‘extraordinary sequel . . . My health is gone—my nerve has deserted me’. Influenza plays a central role in this fiction, but Feveral’s story is simply one of many – documentary and fictionalized – that populate the pages of l…
Outbreak
One can hardly read a Victorian text without encountering contagious diseases, those striving against them, or those marked by them: from the tuberculous resonances in Dracula (1897) to Jonathan Hutchinson’s (1828–1913) syphilography, Mary Seacole’s pioneering nursing and treatment of cholera in Panama (Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands, 1857), and finally Bleak House’s Esther, disfigured by smallpox. This Roundtable asks how the…
The Element of Living Storm
That Algernon Charles Swinburne loved the Brontës is well known, and his interest in them well documented. His admiration for Charlotte and Emily, in particular, prompted two studies, a short book and an article, which were instrumental in establishing their critical reputation as it exists today. “Those great twin sisters in genius,” as he wrote in 1877, held a powerful sway over Swinburne's imagination ( A Note 188–200). He considered them his …
Pandemic Forms
Narrative structures, though invisible to the naked eye, guide our understanding of pandemics. Like curves and graphs, we can plot them, identify their patterns and organizing principles. These structures act upon our understanding of social and biological events just as much as the rhythms of viral replication and mutation. They order not only themselves but also social and health outcomes. This essay uses narrative precision to expand beyond Ch…
The Element of Living Storm
That Algernon Charles Swinburne loved the Brontës is well known, and his interest in them well documented. His admiration for Charlotte and Emily, in particular, prompted two studies, a short book and an article, which were instrumental in establishing their critical reputation as it exists today. “Those great twin sisters in genius,” as he wrote in 1877, held a powerful sway over Swinburne's imagination ( A Note 188–200). He considered them his …
Virtuosic craft or clerical labour
The electronic health record (EHR) is a focus of contentious debate, having become as essential to contemporary clinical practice as it is polarising. Debates about the EHR raise questions about physicians' professional identity, the nature of clinical work, evolution of the patient/practitioner relationship, and narratives of technological optimism and pessimism. The metaphors by which clinicians stake our identities-are we historians, detective…
An Extraordinary Sequel
In 1895, the crime-writing duo of L. T. Meade and Clifford Halifax, MD, published ‘A Doctor’s Dilemma’ in The Strand Magazine. In it, the young physician Arthur Feveral describes a recent influenza outbreak which has left an ‘extraordinary sequel . . . My health is gone—my nerve has deserted me’. Influenza plays a central role in this fiction, but Feveral’s story is simply one of many – documentary and fictionalized – that populate the pages of l…
Outbreak
One can hardly read a Victorian text without encountering contagious diseases, those striving against them, or those marked by them: from the tuberculous resonances in Dracula (1897) to Jonathan Hutchinson’s (1828–1913) syphilography, Mary Seacole’s pioneering nursing and treatment of cholera in Panama (Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands, 1857), and finally Bleak House’s Esther, disfigured by smallpox. This Roundtable asks how the…
The Case of the Peculiar Story
In "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" (1841), Poe invents the detective story in English, introducing his gentleman sleuth Auguste Dupin as he solves the locked-room mystery of two women found brutally murdered in a Paris apartment. In L'Amante Anglaise (1967), Duras revisits the detective form, fictionalizing the true 1949 crime of a woman murdering and dismembering her cousin in Viorne, France. These literary detective stories highlight the powerf…
Critical Pedagogies in Health Professions Education
Whether oppressive structures are legal, financial, or educational, victims of systemic injustice have almost always been those with minoritized identities.Health care-despite clinicians' presumed fiduciary obligations extending to patients and the public via the social contract-is not exempt from these flaws.Racism, policy-and practice-based assaults on reproductive rights, gun violence, disinformation, transphobia, mass incarceration, and clima…
Pandemic Forms
Narrative structures, though invisible to the naked eye, guide our understanding of pandemics. Like curves and graphs, we can plot them, identify their patterns and organizing principles. These structures act upon our understanding of social and biological events just as much as the rhythms of viral replication and mutation. They order not only themselves but also social and health outcomes. This essay uses narrative precision to expand beyond Ch…
Mapping DC health inequities
There are significant health disparities that exist in Washington, DC, especially when considering variables such as race, socioeconomic status, place of residence, and language. This study analyzes and compares the medical humanities literature to scientific literature to identify if the medical humanities can illuminate more of the root causes of health disparities. A systematic search was conducted, identifying a total of 119 articles for anal…
Changing patterns in health-seeking behaviour and prescription practices for treatment of hypertension in nine districts – insights from India Hypertension Control Initiative, 2018-19 and 2023-24
The India Hypertension Control Initiative (IHCI) aimed to strengthen public sector primary care for hypertension treatment and control. Our study describes changes in health-seeking behaviour, prescription practices, and key predictors influencing treatment adoption in the public sector using data from IHCI repeat cross-sectional surveys. We conducted baseline (2018-19) and follow-up (2023-24) surveys in nine districts across five Phase I states …
Crafting the Divine Ship
The Malabar coastline in present-day southwestern India is renowned for its maritime heritage and its indigenous shipbuilding traditions. Much of what is currently known about shipbuilding in this region’s past is garnered from European documents, marine archaeology, and excavations of ancient ports. This article adds to this knowledge by consulting centuries-old performative traditions and folklore. Specifically, we examine the Thottam of Marakk…
Art (6 works) · Literature (6 works) · Narrative (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · History (4 works) · Medicine (4 works) · Art history (3 works) · Crime and Detective Fiction Studies (3 works) · Gothic Literature and Media Analysis (3 works)