Rebecca Garden
Biographic Data
| ID | 4499016 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rebecca Garden |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rebecca |
| FAMILY NAME | Garden |
| SIGNATURE | GARDEN R |
| AFFILIATIONS | SUNY Upstate Medical University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2044-105X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Teaching public health humanities: Innovations from the field
This article offers a comprehensive definition and illustration of the field of public health humanities. Ranging across the disciplines and educational settings of seven different scholar-educators, it offers a clear and detailed discussion of this often-overlooked branch of the wider health humanities, with a focus on teaching. Public health humanities brings the theories, methods and resources of arts and humanities disciplines into conversati…
Robert, Aids, and Infectious Sympathy: I Remember When There Was Nothing Medicine Could Do
written about these books in my dissertation, in part because they enthralled me with their uncanny gothic techniques, triggering the sensations of embodied narrative.Brown had personal experience with yellow fever: He lived through the epidemic in New York City in 1798, when he and his roommate, Elihu Smith, a cherished friend, contracted the disease.Brown tenderly nursed his friend before Smith died of yellow fever.Brown then began to write abo…
Queer Interventions in Biomedicine and Public Health
This book provides an overview on critical healing, which draws on queer theory, disability studies, postcolonial theory, and literary studies.
Critical Healing: Queering Diagnosis and Public Health through the Health Humanities
Developing Disability-Focused Pre-Health and Health Professions Curricula
People with disabilities (PWD) comprise a significant part of the population yet experience some of the most profound health disparities. Among the greatest barriers to quality care are inadequate health professions education related to caring for PWD. Drawing upon the expertise of health professions educators in medicine, public health, nursing, social work, and physician assistant programs, this forum showcases innovative methods for teaching c…
Queer Interventions in Biomedicine and Public Health
Unmasking Inequality in Our Pandemic Narratives
Unmasking Inequality in Our Pandemic Narratives Rebecca Garden (bio) The COVID-19 pandemic poses a narrative problem. In the pandemic’s early days, I participated in a widely shared experience: the lockdown phase, when so many of us were isolated in our homes and learning to navigate work and social interactions through digital spaces. Even in this self-imposed isolation, I felt connected to others; I was in the midst of the same story as thousan…
Centering Patients, Revealing Structures: The Health Humanities Portrait Approach
Critical Healing: Queering Diagnosis and Public Health through the Health Humanities
From Silence into Language: Questioning the Power of Physician Illness Narratives
Physicians' narratives of their own experiences of illness can be a kind of empathic bridge across the divide between a professional healer and a sick patient. This essay considers ways in which physicians' narratives of their own and family members' experiences of cancer shape encounters with patients and patients' experiences of illness. It analyzes ethical dimensions of physicians' narratives (such as those by Atul Gawande, Siddhartha Mukherje…
The Role of Workplace Popularity: Links to Employee Characteristics and Supervisor-Rated Outcomes
Popularity in the workplace is relatively unexplored but has multiple potential applications in organizations. This field study uses data collected from 223 supervisor–subordinate dyads at various organizations in China to examine core self-evaluation (CSE) as an antecedent of employee popularity, the ability of political skill and work engagement to predict popularity above and beyond CSE, and the moderating roles of political skill and work eng…
Picture this: A field experiment of the influence of subtle affective stimuli on employee well‐being and performance
Prior literature examining the antecedents of employee affect has largely ignored subtle affective influences in the workplace and their impact on employees' affective experiences and behaviors. A substantial body of evidence from basic psychology research suggests that individuals' affect can be influenced by minimal stimulus input. The primary objective of this research is to take an initial step towards understanding the “real‐world” impact of…
Who speaks for whom? Health humanities and the ethics of representation
The medical or health humanities are in essence a form of advocacy, a means of addressing a problem of underrepresentation. They focus on suffering, rather than pathology, and on sociocultural understandings of illness and disability, rather than a narrow biomedical perspective. The health humanities thus analyse and attempt to recalibrate the power imbalance in healthcare. This article reviews health humanities scholarship that addresses underre…
Confined to Bed: Illness, Narrative, and Female Authority in Charlotte Temple
Susanna Rowson’s early American bestseller, Charlotte Temple , has typically been read as a story of seduction and abandonment. Not only is the title character abandoned but also the revolutionary ideals of female equality that were ultimately rejected in the formation of the new republic. This essay, however, focuses primarily on the power that other female characters wield through narrative mastery. It locates female narrative power within the …
Distance Learning: Empathy and Culture in Junot Diaz’s “Wildwood”
Sympathy, Disability, and the Nurse: Female Power in Edith Wharton’s The Fruit of the Tree
Disability and narrative: New directions for medicine and the medical humanities
People with disabilities are a large minority that disproportionately seeks medical care. However, disability is relatively neglected in medical education and practice, and disabled people experience troubling differences and even disparities in healthcare. Practitioners can help improve healthcare for disabled people through disability studies, a multi-disciplinary field of enquiry that draws on the experiences and perspectives of people with di…
Class and Ethnicity in the Global Market for Organs: The Case of Korean Cinema
The Problem of Empathy: Medicine and the Humanities
Health care institutions and medical educators assert that empathy is essential to optimum patient care, yet medical education and the practice of medicine often neglect empathy in favor of biomedical approaches to disease and injury. This essay discusses the development in medical literature of the concept of "clinical empathy"—which attempts to reorient a biomedical, disease-centered approach to treating illness by accounting for an increasing …
Disability and narrative: New directions for medicine and the medical humanities
People with disabilities are a large minority that disproportionately seeks medical care. However, disability is relatively neglected in medical education and practice, and disabled people experience troubling differences and even disparities in healthcare. Practitioners can help improve healthcare for disabled people through disability studies, a multi-disciplinary field of enquiry that draws on the experiences and perspectives of people with di…
The Problem of Empathy: Medicine and the Humanities
Health care institutions and medical educators assert that empathy is essential to optimum patient care, yet medical education and the practice of medicine often neglect empathy in favor of biomedical approaches to disease and injury. This essay discusses the development in medical literature of the concept of "clinical empathy"—which attempts to reorient a biomedical, disease-centered approach to treating illness by accounting for an increasing …
Picture this: A field experiment of the influence of subtle affective stimuli on employee well‐being and performance
Prior literature examining the antecedents of employee affect has largely ignored subtle affective influences in the workplace and their impact on employees' affective experiences and behaviors. A substantial body of evidence from basic psychology research suggests that individuals' affect can be influenced by minimal stimulus input. The primary objective of this research is to take an initial step towards understanding the “real‐world” impact of…
Class and Ethnicity in the Global Market for Organs: The Case of Korean Cinema
The Problem of Empathy: Medicine and the Humanities
Health care institutions and medical educators assert that empathy is essential to optimum patient care, yet medical education and the practice of medicine often neglect empathy in favor of biomedical approaches to disease and injury. This essay discusses the development in medical literature of the concept of "clinical empathy"—which attempts to reorient a biomedical, disease-centered approach to treating illness by accounting for an increasing …
Sympathy, Disability, and the Nurse: Female Power in Edith Wharton’s The Fruit of the Tree
Disability and narrative: New directions for medicine and the medical humanities
People with disabilities are a large minority that disproportionately seeks medical care. However, disability is relatively neglected in medical education and practice, and disabled people experience troubling differences and even disparities in healthcare. Practitioners can help improve healthcare for disabled people through disability studies, a multi-disciplinary field of enquiry that draws on the experiences and perspectives of people with di…
Confined to Bed: Illness, Narrative, and Female Authority in Charlotte Temple
Susanna Rowson’s early American bestseller, Charlotte Temple , has typically been read as a story of seduction and abandonment. Not only is the title character abandoned but also the revolutionary ideals of female equality that were ultimately rejected in the formation of the new republic. This essay, however, focuses primarily on the power that other female characters wield through narrative mastery. It locates female narrative power within the …
Distance Learning: Empathy and Culture in Junot Diaz’s “Wildwood”
Who speaks for whom? Health humanities and the ethics of representation
The medical or health humanities are in essence a form of advocacy, a means of addressing a problem of underrepresentation. They focus on suffering, rather than pathology, and on sociocultural understandings of illness and disability, rather than a narrow biomedical perspective. The health humanities thus analyse and attempt to recalibrate the power imbalance in healthcare. This article reviews health humanities scholarship that addresses underre…
From Silence into Language: Questioning the Power of Physician Illness Narratives
Physicians' narratives of their own experiences of illness can be a kind of empathic bridge across the divide between a professional healer and a sick patient. This essay considers ways in which physicians' narratives of their own and family members' experiences of cancer shape encounters with patients and patients' experiences of illness. It analyzes ethical dimensions of physicians' narratives (such as those by Atul Gawande, Siddhartha Mukherje…
The Role of Workplace Popularity: Links to Employee Characteristics and Supervisor-Rated Outcomes
Popularity in the workplace is relatively unexplored but has multiple potential applications in organizations. This field study uses data collected from 223 supervisor–subordinate dyads at various organizations in China to examine core self-evaluation (CSE) as an antecedent of employee popularity, the ability of political skill and work engagement to predict popularity above and beyond CSE, and the moderating roles of political skill and work eng…
Picture this: A field experiment of the influence of subtle affective stimuli on employee well‐being and performance
Prior literature examining the antecedents of employee affect has largely ignored subtle affective influences in the workplace and their impact on employees' affective experiences and behaviors. A substantial body of evidence from basic psychology research suggests that individuals' affect can be influenced by minimal stimulus input. The primary objective of this research is to take an initial step towards understanding the “real‐world” impact of…
Critical Healing: Queering Diagnosis and Public Health through the Health Humanities
Centering Patients, Revealing Structures: The Health Humanities Portrait Approach
Unmasking Inequality in Our Pandemic Narratives
Unmasking Inequality in Our Pandemic Narratives Rebecca Garden (bio) The COVID-19 pandemic poses a narrative problem. In the pandemic’s early days, I participated in a widely shared experience: the lockdown phase, when so many of us were isolated in our homes and learning to navigate work and social interactions through digital spaces. Even in this self-imposed isolation, I felt connected to others; I was in the midst of the same story as thousan…
Queer Interventions in Biomedicine and Public Health
This book provides an overview on critical healing, which draws on queer theory, disability studies, postcolonial theory, and literary studies.
Critical Healing: Queering Diagnosis and Public Health through the Health Humanities
Developing Disability-Focused Pre-Health and Health Professions Curricula
People with disabilities (PWD) comprise a significant part of the population yet experience some of the most profound health disparities. Among the greatest barriers to quality care are inadequate health professions education related to caring for PWD. Drawing upon the expertise of health professions educators in medicine, public health, nursing, social work, and physician assistant programs, this forum showcases innovative methods for teaching c…
Queer Interventions in Biomedicine and Public Health
Robert, Aids, and Infectious Sympathy: I Remember When There Was Nothing Medicine Could Do
written about these books in my dissertation, in part because they enthralled me with their uncanny gothic techniques, triggering the sensations of embodied narrative.Brown had personal experience with yellow fever: He lived through the epidemic in New York City in 1798, when he and his roommate, Elihu Smith, a cherished friend, contracted the disease.Brown tenderly nursed his friend before Smith died of yellow fever.Brown then began to write abo…
Teaching public health humanities: Innovations from the field
This article offers a comprehensive definition and illustration of the field of public health humanities. Ranging across the disciplines and educational settings of seven different scholar-educators, it offers a clear and detailed discussion of this often-overlooked branch of the wider health humanities, with a focus on teaching. Public health humanities brings the theories, methods and resources of arts and humanities disciplines into conversati…
Sociology (13 works) · Psychology (11 works) · Medicine (10 works) · Empathy and Medical Education (9 works) · Political science (9 works) · Social Psychology (7 works) · Art (6 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Literature (5 works)