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Kari Nixon

Kari Nixon
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.


How the Xenophobic Legacy of Ebola Shaped America’s Fear and Denial of COVID-19

Kari Nixon on the Harmful Effects of American Disease
Fantasies Like The Hot Zone
June 14, 2021  By Kari Nixon
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