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What's New. . .

the healing muse

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The eleventh volume of The Healing Muse, SUNY Upstate's journal of literary and visual arts published annually by the Center for Bioethics and Humanities is now available for sale. We provide a forum for artistic approaches to the body, illness, and medicine by publishing the voices and perspectives of people with illness and disability, health care practitioners, and caregivers.

We accept submissions of creative work (fiction, narrartives, essays, poems, visual art) from September 1 to May 1 each year; the journal is published in October. Submission and order information is available at thehealingmuse.org.



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Fall 2012 Courses

Center faculty teach required ethics courses, in all four colleges of SUNY Upstate. We also offer a variety of electives.

Fall Consortium for Culture and Medicine electives:


Center Seminars

Friday May 11, 2012

"Ethical Issues in Developmental Disability Research:  Issues and Responses"

This month' speaker will be Katherine E. McDonald, PhD, Public Health, Food Studies and Nutrition, Burton Blatt Institute, from Syracuse University.

Center Seminars webpage > >