{"id":192,"date":"2019-08-28T00:11:57","date_gmt":"2019-08-28T00:11:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medicalrhetoric.com\/symposium2019\/?page_id=192"},"modified":"2019-08-28T00:12:35","modified_gmt":"2019-08-28T00:12:35","slug":"katherine-rogers-carpenter","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/medicalrhetoric.com\/symposium2019\/katherine-rogers-carpenter\/","title":{"rendered":"Katherine Rogers-Carpenter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-193 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/medicalrhetoric.com\/symposium2019\/files\/2019\/08\/Rogers-Carpenter-Image.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"170\" \/>Title:<\/strong> <\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Assistant Professor (Writing, Rhetoric, and Digital Studies)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>University:<\/strong> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">University of Kentucky<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Email:<\/strong> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">K.Rogers-Carpenter@uky.edu<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>Description of your work<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As a faculty member in the University of Kentucky\u2019s Writing, Rhetoric, and\u00a0Digital Studies department, I teach courses about epidemics and language, women\u2019s health, and writing public science. I have presented conference papers about cultural responses to\u00a0Ebola, cholera, and\u00a0tuberculosis. I also serve on the editorial board for the\u00a0<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Journal of the Southern Association for the History of Medicine and\u00a0Science<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and I am an affiliate faculty member with our Health, Societies, and Populations department.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">My current project examines how beliefs and assumptions about disease affect treatment choices and how these beliefs change over time. I start by examining two tuberculosis cases\u2014one from 1863 and another from 2007.\u00a0 I am currently exploring parallels between these cases and modern assumptions about vaccines, supplements, and fad diets.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Title: Assistant Professor (Writing, Rhetoric, and Digital Studies) University: University of Kentucky Email: K.Rogers-Carpenter@uky.edu Description of your work As a faculty member in the University of Kentucky\u2019s Writing, Rhetoric, and\u00a0Digital &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalrhetoric.com\/symposium2019\/katherine-rogers-carpenter\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Katherine Rogers-Carpenter&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-192","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicalrhetoric.com\/symposium2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicalrhetoric.com\/symposium2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicalrhetoric.com\/symposium2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicalrhetoric.com\/symposium2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicalrhetoric.com\/symposium2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicalrhetoric.com\/symposium2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":194,"href":"https:\/\/medicalrhetoric.com\/symposium2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/192\/revisions\/194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicalrhetoric.com\/symposium2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}