#   AI and the Medical Humanities 

 



####  calendar\_today Date and Time 

 **September 19, 2023** 

 06:30PM - 06:30PM EDT 

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 **Online**  



 

 



 


##  [CRITICAL HEALTH HUMANITIES](/critical-health-humanities)

##  SPEAKER: Kirsten Ostherr, Rice University

 Kirsten Ostherr, PhD, MPH is the Gladys Louise Fox Professor of English at Rice University in Houston, Texas, where she is a media scholar, health researcher, and technology analyst. Her research on trust and privacy in digital health ecosystems has been featured in *Slate*, *The Washington Post*, *Big Data & Society*, and *Catalyst*. She has recently published research on medical humanities and artificial intelligence in *The Journal of Medical Humanities*, and her writing on COVID-19 has been featured in *Inside Higher Ed* and in *American Literature*. She is currently leading a multidisciplinary project called "Translational Humanities for Public Health" that will identify humanities-based (and humanities-inspired) responses to the COVID-19 pandemic, to document and help others build upon these creative efforts. Kirsten is the author of *Medical Visions: Producing the Patient through Film, Television and Imaging Technologies* (Oxford, 2013) and *Cinematic Prophylaxis: Globalization and Contagion in the Discourse of World Health* (Duke, 2005). She is editor of *Applied Media Studies* (Routledge, 2018), and co-editor of *Science/Animation*, a special issue of the journal *Discourse* (2016). Kirsten is currently writing a book called *Quantified Health: Learning from Patient Stories in the Age of Big Data.*

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