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Rebecca Garden

Rebecca E. Garden, PhD Rebecca Garden, Ph.D., is Assistant Professor of Bioethics and Humanities and Associate Editor of The Healing Muse, Upstate's journal of literary and visual art. She earned her doctorate in English from Columbia University.

Dr. Garden teaches First Person: Narratives of Illness, Disability, and Identity and Representations of the Nurse in Literature, Film, and Television , both offered through the Consortium for Culture and Medicine (CCM). She also lectures in and co-leads discussion groups for the Ethical, Legal and Social Issues in Medicine component of Upstate's Practice of Medicine course, and leads a creative writing workshop for Upstate faculty.

As Program Director of CCM, Dr. Garden brings speakers from different disciplines in the humanities and medicine to lead discussions on interdisciplinary approaches to health care. She also serves as the coordinator of the Literature and Medicine Affinity Group of the American Society of Bioethics and Humanities and sits on the editorial board of the New York University Literature and Medicine Database. She is a past Managing Editor of Literature and Medicine.

Dr. Garden's research interests range from illness and disability narratives to empathy in health care education and practice. She is at work on a book-length project: Radical Illness: Women, Affliction, and Authority in the Eighteenth-Century Novel.

Dr. Garden may be reached at 315.464.5404 or at gardenr@upstate.edu.

Selected Publications

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Garden, R. The problem of empathy: medicine and the humanities. New Literary History, Summer 2007; 38(3): 551-568.

Garden R, Yoo Murphree HJ. Class and ethnicity in the global market for organs: the case of Korean cinema. Journal of Medical Humanities, December 2007; 28(4):213-29.

Garden, R. Vulnerable subjects: ethics and life writing (review). Perspectives in Biology and Medicine 48(4), 2005 Autumn: 626-629.

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