{"id":386,"date":"2018-09-28T15:56:17","date_gmt":"2018-09-28T19:56:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/healthresearch\/people\/karen-flint\/"},"modified":"2018-10-23T14:33:10","modified_gmt":"2018-10-23T18:33:10","slug":"karen-flint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/healthresearch\/people\/karen-flint\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Karen Flint"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-532\" src=\"http:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/healthresearch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1185\/2018\/09\/Karen-Flint-300x187.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"187\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/healthresearch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1185\/2018\/09\/Karen-Flint-300x187.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/healthresearch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1185\/2018\/09\/Karen-Flint.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Associate Professor<br \/>\nDepartment of History<\/p>\n<p>Author of <em>Healing Traditions: African Medicine, Cultural Exchange, and Competition in South Africa, 1820-1948<\/em> (Ohio University Press, 2008). [read more=&#8217;Read more&#8217; less=&#8217;Read less&#8217;] She\u2019s written a number of articles and chapters on African medicine and healing and is currently examining how biomedicine and doctors both empowered and disrupted the system of South African indenture. She is particularly interested in determining the conditions that embolden whistle-blowers or enabled doctors and administrators to nudge reform in a system overwhelmingly stacked in the favor of the rich and powerful. She has a growing interest in the history of global food systems and teaches some classes within this vein.<br \/>\n[\/read]<\/p>\n<p>For more information:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/connections\/people\/karen-flint\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Faculty Connections &gt; Dr. Karen Flint<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Associate Professor Department of History Author of Healing Traditions: African Medicine, Cultural Exchange, and Competition in South Africa, 1820-1948 (Ohio University Press, 2008). [read more=&#8217;Read more&#8217; less=&#8217;Read less&#8217;] She\u2019s written a number of articles and chapters on African medicine and healing and is currently examining how biomedicine and doctors both empowered and disrupted the system [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[42],"tags":[45,16,44,43],"class_list":["post-386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","tag-global-food-systems","tag-global-health","tag-history-of-medicine","tag-indigenous-knowledge-systems"],"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pajj23-6e","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/healthresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/healthresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/healthresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/healthresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/67"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/healthresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=386"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/healthresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":695,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/healthresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386\/revisions\/695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/healthresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/healthresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/healthresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}