Dissertation:

The Social Dynamics of Antibiotic Use in a Large American Medical Complex, 2020.

Published Articles:

[Under review] Rynkiewich, Katharina. “The Work of Prescribing Antibiotics: Hospital-Based Medical Practice and Professional Interactions concerning Infectious Disease Therapy in the United States.” Medical Anthropology Quarterly.

[In press] Rynkiewich, Katharina. “Antimicrobial Prescribing Matters: The Irreconcilability in Moral Ranking Systems.” Anthropology & Medicine.

Rynkiewich, Katharina, et al. 2021. “Healthcare Personnel Experiences Implementing Carbapenem-Resistant Enterobacterales Infection Control Measures at a Ventilator-capable Skilled Nursing Facility – A Qualitative Analysis.” Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology First Look: 1-7. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/ice.2021.265

Rynkiewich, Katharina. 2021. “Everyday Infection, Looming Threat: Hospital-based Infection Control in the United States.” Somatosphere Special Issue: The Hospital Multiple, http://somatosphere.net/2021/hospital-infection-control-medical-anthropology.html/

Rynkiewich, Katharina, David Schwartz, Sarah Won, Bradley Stoner. 2020. “Antibiotic decision making in surgical intensive care – a qualitative analysis.” Journal of Hospital Infection. 104(2): 158-164. DOI: 10.1016/j.jhin.2019.09.002

Rynkiewich, Katharina. 2020. “Finding ‘What’s Wrong With Us’: Antibiotic Prescribing Practice among Physicians in the United States.” Frontiers in Sociology 5(5):1-9. DOI: 10.3389/fsoc.2020.00005  

Rynkiewich, Katharina. 2015. “Reflections on Antibiotic Use in American Hospitals.” Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry, https://culturemedicinepsychiatry.com/2015/01/21/guest-blog-reflections-on-antibiotic-use-in-american-hospitals/

Published Abstracts:

Rynkiewich K, Makhija J, Froilan MC, Benson E, Han A, Trick WE, Weinstein RA, Hayden MK, Lin MY. 2020. “Healthcare Worker Perceptions of Germs and Personal Hygiene Routines in a Ventilator-Capable Skilled Nursing Facility (vSNF).” Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology (41)S1:s245-6.

Rynkiewich K, Makhija J, Froilan MC, Benson E, Han A, Trick WE, Weinstein RA, Hayden MK, Lin MY. 2020. “Healthcare Worker Experiences Implementing CRE Infection Control Measures at a vSNF – A Qualitative Analysis.” Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology 41(S1):s244-5.

Rynkiewich K, Schwartz D, Won S, Stoner B. 2020. “Perceptions of Antimicrobial Stewardship among Infectious Disease Physicians at Two Affiliated Teaching Hospitals.” Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology (41)S1:s346-8.

Rynkiewich, K, Schwartz D, Won S, Heber M, Timmireddy K, Stoner B. 2019. “An Ethnographic Approach to Interrogating Antimicrobial Stewardship at US Teaching Hospitals.” Open Forum Infectious Diseases. 6(2): S388.

Other [Media coverage, etc.]:

Ajuogu, Immaculata. “ANTH 376/476: Anthropology of Infectious Diseases.” Spring 2021 Newsletter, Department of Anthropology at Case Western Reserve University, https://anthropology.case.edu/anth-of-infectious-diseases/

Ogliore, Talia. “Students tackle anthropology of COVID-19.” The Source, Washington University in St. Louis, https://source.wustl.edu/2020/05/students-tackle-anthropology-of-covid-19/