Prescriptive Power: Electricity and Medicine from Mesmerism to Shock Therapy

The Medical Humanities Research Workshop with Dr. Kim Adams, February 18, 2023

About the Speaker
Kim Adams is a Humanities in the World postdoctoral fellow at the Pennsylvania State University Humanities Institute. Her book project, Building the Body Electric, shows how narratives of technology have shaped U.S. healthcare from the Civil War to the Civil Rights Era. She co-hosts the podcast “High Theory” and is a founding member of the Humanities Podcast Network. As a scholar and educator, Adams is invested in work that combines material history with theoretical stakes to evoke practical consequences.

About the Series
Linda Randall Meier Research Workshop

Sponsored by the Stanford Humanities Center and made possible by support from Linda Randall Meier, the Mellon Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Humanities

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https://shc.stanford.edu/stanford-humanities-center/workshops/research-workshops

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