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Kirsten Ostherr

Gladys Louise Professor of English | Chair, English Department | Director of Medical Humanities | Director, Medical Futures Lab | Adjunct Professor, The UT School of Public Health, Division of Health & Behavioral Sciences

English

CONTACT

kostherr@rice.edu

WEBSITE(S)| https://kirstenostherr.org/

Student Project Titles List

VADventure: The Development of an Interactive Educational Tool

Research Areas

Dr. Ostherr is the author of two books, 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), and numerous articles. Her current research is on information and communication technologies in aging and end-of-life care, patient narratives in EHRs, and the role of simulation as a mediator between human and technological forms of medical expertise.