Kari Nixon

Quarantine Life from Cholera to Covid-19: What Pandemics Teach Us about Parenting, Work, Life, and Communities from the 1700s to Today

Sprecher: Carr, Kris

• Audio CD

Produktdetails

• Verlag: SIMON & SCHUSTER AUDIO
• Gesamtlaufzeit: 404 Min.
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juni 2021
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781797131603
• Artikelnr.: 61892070

Autorenporträt

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. She regularly teaches about zombies, medical ethics, the problematic pressures on the health care system, and social justice issues for marginalized races and genders. She has edited numerous books on diseases in society.