Marsha Hurst
My blogs
| Industry | Education |
|---|---|
| Occupation | Director, Health Advocacy Program |
| Location | Bronxville, New York, United States |
| Introduction | A political scientist by training I came into the field of health advocacy through an interest in women's health. These days I satisfy that interest by team teaching a course on women's health with Karen Rader and working on an anthology of women's illness narratives. The book is called "Stories of Illness and Healing: Women Write their Bodies" (to be published by Kent State University Press) and I am editing it with Sayantani DasGupta, a pediatrician and faculty member in Health Advocacy. As an advocate, though, I get to explore all kinds of advocacy, from helping individual patients and families to changing the whole health care system. |
| Interests | Women's health, illness narratives and narrative medicine, research advocacy and protection of human subjects, advocacy and genetics, end-of-life care |