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Katherine Shwetz

@kshwetz.bsky.social
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Lecturer in Medical Humanities, Rice University.

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Katherine Shwetz @kshwetz.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Out now! With many thanks to Anne DeWitt for her thoughtful guidance in putting this collection together. Resistance in Contemporary Contagion Narratives academic.oup.com/edited-volum...
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Resistance in Contemporary Contagion Narratives
Abstract. This chapter studies one way in which postcolonial Indigenous Canadian literature engages with contagious disease: as both a key part of ongoing
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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 20/09/2026
Real baddies don’t use AI
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Lizzie O'Leary @lizzieohreally.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
AI made up indigenous journalists www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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‘Very harmful’: website uses AI to generate northern Indigenous news ‘correspondents’ | CBC News
The website WE NEWS has three northern Indigenous 'AI correspondents.' Their profiles say they are 'a member of Yukon First Nation,' 'of Dene heritage,' and 'an Inuk raised in the North.' Experts in t...
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Katherine Shwetz @kshwetz.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
out now! co-authored with two amazing rice colleagues, a bioengineer and a composer: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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From Human-Centered Results to Real-World Impact: Medical Humanities Cross-disciplinary Research - Journal of Medical Humanities
This collaboratively written paper presents three case studies where researchers from the humanities and from biomedicine collaborated on topics related to health and medicine. This process-focused pa...
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Katherine Shwetz @kshwetz.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Out today! theconversation.com/how-vaccine-...
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How vaccine skeptics use storytelling effectively to create powerful but medically inaccurate messaging
Recognizing the stories behind people’s concerns with vaccines can help public health advocates build a more inclusive approach to healthcare.
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Katherine Shwetz @kshwetz.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
hot off the press, co-written with two rice students and three pediatricians! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Sage Journals: Discover world-class research
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Katherine Shwetz @kshwetz.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
c'est moi! and it's online: events.mcphs.edu/event/vaccin...
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Vaccine Hesitant Narratives: Going Beyond Misinformation
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Katherine Shwetz @kshwetz.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
okay, fine, let's do the bluesky thing
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