SUNY Upstate Medical University

Faculty Member, Center for Bioethics and Humanities

Associate Professor of Bioethics & Humanities

College of Medicine

About

Rebecca Garden has a PhD in English literature from Columbia University. She has published on Deaf culture, narrative, and medicine in Disability Studies Quarterly and the Journal of Clinical Ethics; on empathy and medicine in New Literary History and the Journal for General Internal Medicine; and on narrative and disability in Perspectives in Biology and Medicine, the Journal of Medical Humanities, and Medical Humanities.  She teaches ethics, the health humanities, and disability to nursing, medical students and residents at Upstate Medical University. Through the Consortium for Culture and Medicine, which she directs, Garden teaches courses on disability, medicine, and narrative that include humanities, social science, nursing, and pre-med undergraduates from neighboring institutions as well as clinical students from Upstate. She also co-teaches a graduate course (for law, medical, and sociology students) that is part of a project to investigate d/Deaf patients’ access to health care (the Campaign for Deaf Access: Expanding Communication in Health Care social research project: http://disabilitystudies.syr.edu/what/deafaccess.aspx.) Garden is Associate Editor of the literary and visual arts journal, The Healing Muse, and serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Medical Humanities and Ars Medica: A Journal of Medicine, the Arts, and Humanities.

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