Medical Humanities Professor, specializing in anxiety about epidemic diseases and public health adoptions
Kari Nixon is a professor specializing in social reactions to infectious diseases. She works at Whitworth University, where she teaches about social responses to contagion and quarantine in medical humanities and Victorian literature courses. Her work on public health has been published for lay audiences in HuffPost, YES! Magazine, and CNN.
Her academic book, Kept From All Contagion: Germ Theory, Disease, and the Dilemma of Human Contact, was published by SUNY University Press and tracks the social history of humankind’s responses to disease in Victorian literature and popular culture.
Social Media:
@HalfSickShadows
Kari's book: https://amzn.to/3nx1W4p
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