Torments of a Terrifying Gland: How Medical Humanities Can Improve Prostate Care

Thursday, May 18, 2023

noon–1 p.m. PT

MCH 249, Keck USC Campus

Zoom URL

 

Guest Speaker:

Ericka Johnson, PhD

Professor of Gender and Society, Linköping University, Sweden

 

Biography: The author of A Cultural Biography of the Prostate (MIT, 2021), Dr. Ericka Johnson’s

interdisciplinary research combines the best of social studies of science, medical sociology, and feminist

science studies. Her latest work examines medical technologies and the multiple ways in which

artifacts express and highlight the cultural values that shape our lives.