Ruth Priscilla Kirstein, MD, PhD, is available to publish, consult and for media appearances in English, French and German on the following topics:

MEDICAL ETHICS

• Long-term physical effects of physical and psychological trauma

• Treatment, prevention and communication of toxin exposure

• Impact of Electronic Health Records (EHR) on patient care and communication

• Rationing and denial of medical care in the U.S. and Germany

SOCIAL JUSTICE

• Informal labor practices

• Food access

• Affordable housing practices

MEDIA DIVERSITY

• U.S. media and entertainment professionals who are of Middle Eastern descent or are working on topics of importance to U.S. Middle Eastern communities

• On-camera representations of women and minorities

• Sexual harassment in the workplace

FENCING

• Historic relationship between fencing and dance

• Physical and intellectual empowerment through fencing

• Sublimation of violence

GERMAN/U.S. HISTORY & PRESENT

• Relationship between right-wing thinkers and Jewish populations

• Cultural context of right-wing thought in Germany and the U.S.

• Anti-Muslim, anti-Jewish and anti-refugee violence in Germany

Ruth Priscilla Kirstein’s doctoral dissertation in Medical History and Ethics investigates the making of the neuropsychiatrist Alfred Erich Hoche (1865-1943), who has been accused of having laid the intellectual groundwork for later German euthanasia during World War II.

Media appearances include: Screen International, WBAI, French Morning, Free Speech TV, Tohu Magazine, Daily Sabah, The New York Times, France 24, KPFK Pacifica Radio, Aligre FM, Die Presse, 24heures, Süddeutsche Zeitung.

Her work is featured in Collections of The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center, New York, the Leo Baeck Institute and Centre national de la danse, Paris.