Queer Interventions in Biomedicine and Public Health

Dr. Garden's research draws on fiction, autobiography, graphic health/care, film, and video, as well as critical approaches to disability, deafness, gender, sexuality, and race/ethnicity, to examine socio-cultural and ethical issues related to illness, embodiment, health, and health/care. Her current research interests include dementia and aging and the experiences of deaf and disabled refugees.

Critical Healing: Queering Diagnosis and Public Health through the Health Humanities.- Queer Theory and Biomedical Practice: The Biomedicalization of Sexuality/The Cultural Politics of Biomedicine.- Choir Boy: Trans Vocal Performance and the De-Pathologization of Transition.- The Banality of Anal: Safer Sexual Erotics in the Gay Men's Health Crisis' Safer Sex Comix and Ex Aequo's Alex et la vie d'après.- Fanon and the New Paraphilias: Towards a Trans of Color Critique of the DSM-V.- Listening to Quackery: Reading John Wesley's Primitive Physic in an Age of Health Care Reform.- The Role of the Curator in Modern Hospitals: A Transcontinental Perspective.- What Money Cannot Buy and What Money Ought Not Buy: Dignity, Motives, and Markets in Human Organ Procurement Debates.- Authenticity in Anatomy Art.- Tangles that Lead Nowhere.