Kristin Marie Bivens is a scientific and medical editor, writing professor, and scholar of the rhetoric of health and medicine and technical and professional communication.
She is the scientific editor for the Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine at the University of Bern in Switzerland. Kristin is on leave as an associate professor of English at Harold Washington College—one of the City Colleges of Chicago.
Her scholarship examines the circulation of information from expert to non-expert audiences in critical care contexts (e.g., intensive care units, sudden cardiac arrest, and opioid overdose).
As a scholar-activist, she works to share information about the human rights of children and the bodily rights of individuals.
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